Dear LACTNETERS,

Some weeks ago a requested on LACTNET a list of the professionals top ten reasons to breastfeed.  I wanted to organize the list and then repost it back to LACTNET and then eventually provide the information on a web site and offer translations of the Main reasons.  Well for many weeks your responses sat in a file on my email file, waiting for me to get the time to come back to them and do the compiling and sorting of the reasons.  Unfortunately, somehow I or one of the kids have deleted the files and emails from my hard drive.

So I am now asking again for YOUR list of the reasons why you think mothers and babies should breastfeed.  Please pass this request on to your fellow breastfeeding zealots/promoters or other breastfeeding email digests and ask them to send me their list.  I will try harder this time not to loose the emails and to get the information compiled and reposted to LACTNET.

Jon Ahrendsen MD FAAFP

Jon Ahrendsen 
Becky Ahrendsen
Clarion, Iowa