A student in my Women and Culture class posted this to the listserv today:

>Also (sorry I am full of questions tonight...) I was talking to a friend
>about the importance of breastfeeding and she told me that she would
>never want to breastfeed because she eats so much junk food and that is
>how her cousin's baby passed away.
>
>All that she ate was food that was bad for her, never took any vitamins
>and the doctors said that it died because it was malnourised while
>breastfeeding because her milk did not have what the baby needed since
>her diet was so poor, can this be a problem or was the doctor just
>giving her the wrong information?


ARGH!

Kathy Dettwyler

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