I think it's just well-known that
> breastfed babies are better adjusted socially, just "nicer people", but I
> haven't needed to come up with any refernces for this before.


---------I can't agree with you on that Linda. I think you are jumping to 
bíg conclusions based on small evidence. A *possible*  positive influence on 
the psycho-social development of the human baby due to breastfeeding is nót 
the same as "breastfed babies are just nicer people".
If BF is the norm, and normal, and how it should be, then it also comes in 
all character-social type ranges. Even nasty people can breastfeed and can 
be breastfed.

I"ll take myself as an example. I have been BF-ing my children for years, I 
am a LLL-leader and thus surrounded by nice collegues and young mothers and 
nevertheless I am not a nice person. Neither are my children. My 19 yo has a 
vocabulairy of over one million words (I think) and she's not afraid to use 
them all daily for her own good, my 15 yo is a loner, who is almost always 
on his own. Not at all a social outgoing type.

I think we should be carefull with "big" statements regarding to 
breastfeeding.

Lydia, LLL, Netherlands
Don't try, do. Or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda 

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