Dear Friends:
    I saw a mother yesterday in my role as community  health nurse. Besides 
this new adorable baby boy, she has a 10-year old  daughter, that was diagnosed 
with IDDM at age 7 and also has had asthma since  toddlerhood. 
    This mother started out breastfeeding in the  hospital, but quit when 
faced with the challenges of the milk volume increase.  (She had bottle-fed her 
first child, the daughter with IDDM and  asthma.)
    This mother would not consider breastfeeding at  all, nor pumping milk 
for this baby. She feels that the IDDM is genetic, and  therefore can't be 
helped, and that so many people have asthma so it must  normal.
    sigh..............
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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