Someone please turn this around for me - According to a study conducted by
the University of California at Los Angeles, which examined the CIGNA
Working Well Moms program, breastfeeding mothers experienced a  77 percent
reduction in lost work time due to infant illness (74 fewer absent days/100
mothers who exclusively breastfed their infants).

Apparently, this is the way the study phrased it (I have not seen the study,
only the above post):  for every 100 absent days among the non-exclusively
breastfed group, there were 23 absent days among the exclusively-breastfed
group.  That would be a 77% reduction in lost work time due to infant
illness.

If you say that the 23 absent days among the exclusively-breastfed group is
the STANDARD, then the 100 days among the non-exclusively-breastfed group
would be more than a 4 fold increase, or more than 400% increase in
lost-work time due to not exclusively breastfeeding.

Kathy Dettwyler


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