In a message dated 9/18/00 9:25:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << But I think we should be asking ourselves why women want to wean earlier than we know is biologically best for their children. >> In large part because *they* don't know. The parents don't. Virutually everyone believes that breastfeeding is best, but they feel that formula is a perfectly acceptable alternative....so if bfeeding is too difficult, or if dad/family/etc like to give baby bottles of ABM, then that's okay too. The moms that come home from the hospital's around here are often put on intensive pumping routines to 'increase their supply', but never told that they could simply breastfeed more often. The pumping is a hassle and mom chucks the whole thing. katherine in atl *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html