To the Editor:

I was literally stunned to read Dr. Nancy Snyderman's irresponsible
comments regarding breastfeeding in the May print issue of Good
Housekeeping. Her casual dismissal of the recent guidelines issued by
the American Academy of Pediatrics, reflecting a decade of new research
into the risks of artificial feeding for infants, was akin to Good
Housekeeping running an article advising readers not to worry about
using a carseat or placing their babies to sleep on their backs if it is
too much of a "hassle" (Snyderman's words). Her statements regarding
early weaning to infant formula are inaccurate and represent a complete
lack of basic knowledge of human lactation, a medical specialty, on the
part of Dr. Snyderman. The fact that she personally chose to
prematurely  disrupt her breastfeeding relationship with her child in
contraindication to current medical guidelines issued by the AAP and the
World Health Organization should not have been represented as medical
advice for other maternal-infant pairs. I look forward to Good
Housekeeping's immediate retraction of Dr. Snyderman's dangerously
misinformed medical advice.

Katie Allison Granju
Knoxville, TN