You might also want to show them these articles:



The first demonstrates that babies breastfed less than four weeks (and that,
of course, includes babies not breastfed at all) are five times more likely
to die of SIDS than infants breastfed for more than sixteen weeks. The
second article contends SIDS rates are higher among formula-fed infants
because breastfed infants are more easily aroused from active sleep than
formula-fed babies. Some scientists theorize that arousal from sleep is a
survival mechanism that may be impaired in SIDS victims.



Alm, B. et. al. 2002. "Breast feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome
in Scandinavia, 1992-95." Archives of Disease in Childhood 86: 400-402.



Horne, R. S. C., P. M. Parslow, D. Ferens, A-M Watts, and T. M. Adamson.
2004. "Comparison of evoked arousability in breast and formula fed infants."
Archives of Disease in Childhood 89: 22-25.



Good luck!



Jackie Wolf


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