Hi,

Following a two day course given here in Holland by Kathleen Auerbach,
Kathleen Bruce and Jeanne Brotherton I finally got the message that Lactnet
is out there! Fantastic, I subscribed immediately and just got my first mail.
Short introduction: I'm one of the first group of (I think) 10 LC's here in
Holland. I'm in private practice, i.e. I couldn't feed my kids on it but
what a rewarding profession this is!! Four kids, all breastfed, all
temporarely jar-fed but all very very healthy and very slim. And mind you,
were they FAT when I breastfed them. I know that breastmilk has a more or
less fixed fat content but I must have been a deviation to the very creamy
side.
As a comment on one of the posts I read: the only one (my youngest) that
breastfed exclusively till 7 months (don't get me wrong, never any ABM but
early solids were still the common policy when my kids were baby's) is the
best eater, maybe not in quantity but certainly in all different tastes.
She is 9.

As to dioxins in ABM, dioxins are in the fat, and all the milkfat is
skimmed off when they manufacture ABM and replaced by vegetable oils, which
don't contain dioxins, it is said.

From the big Dutch study on long-term effects from dioxin intake the
results seem to be favorable for breastfeeding. Certainly the developement
of the central nervous system is markedly better in breastfed children. One
thougt about that frightens me however. I would LOVE to be able to believe
unconditionally the truth of that statement, but is it not true that of
those baby's that succeed in breastfeeding well the CNS is already
healthier than in the group that fail? Isn't a failing or not completely OK
CNS not a cause sometimes for failing to breastfeed (difficulty sucking
etc)??? I don't know if this has been taken into account in this study.
Does anybody know?


Jacqueline van Bree IBCLC
Amstelveen, Netherlands
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