> Date:    Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:01:39 -0400
> From:    Becky Cook Llll <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Newsweek article on bfing & higher IQ's
>
> I just got my special edition of Newsweek magazine about Your Child From
> Birth to Three. There is a pretty good article about breastfeeding boosting a
> child's IQ score. However, there is one line that baffles me: "It's potent
> enough to keep babies alive for the first 16 weeks of life."
>
> Surely, the author didn't mean WEEKS? Could people really believe breastmilk
> could only keep a baby alive for 16 weeks?
>
> Becky Cook
> LLLLeader
> Carmel, Indiana

I bet they meant decades.  Yeah, that's it!  I'm *sure* that's what it must have
been!

Gad!, you know where they got that?  16 weeks = 4 months.  Of course that's when
you have to introduce solids, don'tcha know, or the child will never learn to
eat, and they'll die!

Anne in Mpls, amazed, yes, amazed my daughter didn't just fall over dead at 16
weeks plus one day....