In a message dated 11/25/98 12:09:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>
>  There has been a "lively" thread on the Peds list about breastfeeding.
>  One point of contention is the Kaiser study that states breastfed babies
>  "cost" $1400 less in health care costs in the first year (or is it 6
months)
>  of life.  A pediatriciain on the list said that this studay was flawed -
> does
>  anyone know anything about this - and, if it is flawed, what are the real
>  numbers??
>  Thanks..........Dianne Kemp, Port Huron, Michigan

This just floors me. I mean, what is there for physicians to disagree on about
breastfeeding?  Who really cares what the Kaiser study showed; you can point
them to the footnotes of the new AAP Policy Statement on Breastfeeding for
dozens of peer-reviewed studies demonstrating the risks of artificial feeding.
I would be very interested to hear what the gist of this lively discussion has
been.

Katie Allison Granju
Knoxville, TN