Someone wrote:

>[a host of diseases[, immunizations for babies in daycare, diabetes, >could
>be "cured" (well, certainly lessened) if breastfeeding

Immunizations don't belong in this list.  Immunizations are not diseases,
rather they protect children from diseases, just as breastfeeding does.
Breastfeeding will not prevent your child from getting any of the diseases
that immunizations protect against.  Many many children in the world die of
these diseases, or are left permanently disabled, because they don't have
access to immunizations -- even though all the children are breastfed.  They
die of polio, measles, tetanus, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and chicken pox.
They are left paralyzed by polio, blind from measles, etc.

Breastfeeding and immunizations are both actions a mother can take to
provide the best possible health outcome for her child.  It isn't either/or
-- you need to do both.

Kathy Dettwyler

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