Hi all,
In response to Judy Knopf's observation's re: religious women having a higher
rate of bfing - My practice involves a large religious (Orthodox Jewish)
population of Los Angeles.  From my observations and being a part of this
community, it is definately true that religious women ALMOST always breastfeed
and continue to do so after most of the other population that I work with has
stopped.  What I don't see, is real long term (2-3 years) bfing.  The reason is
since birth control is not practiced by Orthodox Jews most women are pregnant
again before that time and have large families.  It makes for difficult tandem
bfing.
Yaffa Stark, MA, IBCLC