<<**But, some babies will be allergic regardless of what their
mothers
        do. When this occurs, your physician may recommend a soy formula
(for
infants with no soy allergies) or other hypoallergenic infant
formulas.**>>>>

No matter what?  Why?  Some mystical allergen too mysterious to uncover and
deal with?  How convenient!   I just love it when people chalk up
breastfeeding problems to some mystical unprovable problem.  (NOT!)  Makes
it soooo easy to throw up one's hands and say, "Oh well - I tried.  I WANTED
to breastfeed.  Pass the formula, please."

        <<<<Milk is another food that frequently causes allergies in adults,
but it is
a **nutritionally important part of children's diets**. >>

Tell that to my near-vegan nearly-5-year-old, who's allergy to milk & most
meats is very serious indeed.  Kid has never had milk in his life, and is
darn healthy, thank you very much.  There ARE other ways of providing
children with the nutrients in milk.

        <<Does anyone else find this somewhat ironic, not to mention
factually shaky?>>

It's very ironic & shaky; you're right.  If a child's problem truly is an
allergy to something in mom's diet, then enough investigation, trial, &
error will eventually uncover the culprit/s.  Either he's allergic (or
sensitive, or intolerant - pick your favorite word) to something or things
in mom's diet or he's not.  Period.  Sometimes it's a combination of things,
and often families will give up before finding the right combination of
allergens to eliminate.  I know that if my ultra-allergic youngest hadn't
been my third child (as opposed to being my first born), I probably would
have quit nursing him.  It was just so difficult, frustrating - and scary.
The boy was gaining 12 ounces per month, for no breastfeeding management
reason that we could determine.  Had I not had the benefit of years of
beautiful pleasant breastfeeding experiences to motivate me, and years as a
LLL Leader to teach me prior to Joshua being born, I could not have
persevered the 8 months that it took to uncover what his other-than-dairy
allergens were.

Once I did, he caught up on ALL of his needed weight gain in a matter of a
few weeks.  He's been the healthiest of children ever since.  But prior to
that, we ran the gamut of experiences, from testing him for cystic fibrosis
to constant admonitions from others that I wasn't making enough milk.  In
hindsight I regret not thinking of eliminating beef/pork/chicken much much
sooner.  The way I see it now (and often explain it, to others), is that he
doesn't tolerate any part of any cow in any form.  Same goes for pigs.
Chicken I believe he might tolerate, were he willing to try it, since he
tolerates anything I bake with eggs.  But he won't eat either, and I'm not
about to ask him to.

This statement shows where this organization feels is the real value.
Substituting soy formula for breastmilk can be considered acceptable and
even necessary (in their view) under certain circumstances.  But eliminating
milk from a child's diet?  Unthinkable!

AAARRRRRGGGGG........
Regina Roig Lane BS IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC and mother of one very
healthy very allergic dairy-free vegetarian

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