Valerie, You may be right about the testimonial for water, but I did not read the brain damage statement the way you did. I assumed that it meant her child was born brain damaged and she nursed him for a long time because of it, to give him as many benefits of mother's milk as she could. There's another possibility. BF exclusively for 3 years is an awfully long time to go without other foods. I wonder if she meant three months. Just my .02 on this one. Naomi Bar-Yam On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > This is a quote from the website that Jennifer provided for us: > > "So, I exclusively breadfed my son for 3 years (he is brain-injured) > and I > never gave him a drop of water. I'm from Belgium, I was bottle-fed and > never got > a drop of water while on fomulas. My husband on the other hand, born to > African-American/Native American parents in Arkansas (homebirth) was > breastfed and > he remembers that it was common practice to give water with a spoon or > a cup > to breastfed infants.." > > I am fascinated by how this is written--so she exclusively breastfed > for 3 > years and has a brain damaged child (implication--exclusive > breastfeeding causes > brain damage) -------------------------------- Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D. [log in to unmask] Researcher, Writer, Educator in Maternal and Child Health -------------------------------- *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html