i'll be brief,  i love reading but i have always found it difficult to get
my thoughts on paper.  hope i'm clear.   i was wondering if anyone here has
had these thoughts and where they went with them...

i'm really struggling with wanting people to "make the connection" between
increased risk and not breastfeeding.

why isn't caring for a formula raised child or adult a different branch of
medecine?
could medecine be practised differently?  could you try a natural remedy for
an ear infection or wait a day (not until perforation of course) when the
child is bf versus formula fed?  what about gastro?  they usually say no
milk - just give pedialyte or gatorade this much this often.  do they give
bf infants different advice?  do dr's look for certain ailments in formula
fed adults bc of the researched risks?   the body's response to infection,
disease etc - on a cellular level - are their differences?  if there are
risks of not breastfeeding then their must be.  why aren't these differences
taken seriously?

if you visit the paeds floor and look at the pt board and then at ages and
dx, do you wonder about how they are or were fed and then make a connection?
do the other nurses or physicians ponder these things?
could we ask, look in the chart and talk about it?
ie someone tells you they were just diagnosed with MS, or high blood
pressure, or diabetes or some auto-immune disease etc.  after other
appropriate conversation, could you throw out the "do you know if you were
breastfed" question?
do you think this is appropriate?  helpful? - to them i mean in terms of
making a connection and planting bf seeds in them and people in their lives?
of course, intent would not be to frighten anyone, just to casually make a
connection....

wish i studied marketing.  must read the book recommended not long ago by
janice.

chrysta in toronto

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