Hi All,
   LLL's Professional Liaison Program (your local Area Professional
Liaison or Area Associate PL) can get a list of references and one of
the easiest ways to keep track of current medical publication of
breastfeeding research is through a subscription to Breastfeeding
Abstracts a quarterly publication available from LLLI. Also one of the
LLLI sheets - Facts On Breastfeeding - is updated every year and lists
on a double sided single sheet medical references for the facts
presented. I would suggest the LLL Web site as a start to find both the
two publications I mentioned and possibly the local APL or AAPL (if you
don't know who that is or a local Leader to contact).
   In answer to the question on Animal/Human Feeding Question? Those
animals that do not receive colostrum tend to become first on the list
of those who succumb to disease or death by preditor. We all know that
in animals the best and fittest not only survive but are meant to
proprogate the species to help keep it going into the future. Many
humans do not see we are experiencing the same situation by not
breastfeeding from birth - setting up infants for disease and greater
risk of death.
   Alicia, in reference to Crohn's Disease, in Ruth Lawrence's MD
Breastfeeding A Guide for the Medical Professional, on pg. 436,7 she
discussed Crohn's Disease and breastfeeding. The reference listed is
Bergstrand, O, Hellers G: Breastfeeding during infancy in patients who
later develop Crohn's Disease, Scand J Gastroenterol 18:903,1983. The
conclusion is that Crohn's Disease was over represented among those with
no or very short periods of breastfeeding.

Leslie Ward
Vine Grove, KY
"Every mother is like Moses. She does not see the promised land. She
prepares a world she will not see. Pope Paul VI