Well said, Elisheva!

-Debi Ferrarello, RN, MS, IBCLC

In a message dated 6/12/01 3:42:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> On balance our children are better off breastfed.   But they are not quite as
> much better off as they would be if we lived in a cleaner world.
>
> That's on a population wide basis; individual cases are unknowable.  As
> parents all we can do is play the averages and do what is overall best for
> kids overall, and tailor that for our individual kids as data about that
> individual child becomes available, and not kick ourselves for what we can't
> help, when we've done the best thing on balance.

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