Also notice that preemie babies were not included in the study. It has always been the preemies where the distinction appears greater and where amount of breastmilk is more easily defined and measured. It's a good population for future study with careful distinction of maternal intelligence as it's more frequent that one who planned to breastfeed ends up not being able to, or not in the beginning, and one who did not plan to breastfeed was encouraged into providing her milk for delicate preemie. Many studies have used "intention to breastfeed," versus those who actually did or not as an attempt to reduce the confounding of maternal qualities. These efforts were not viewed in the current study. Obviously measurements of EBF versus none will show different results. And what of the ABM companies' efforts to bring FF infant cognitive development up to that of EBF, now via DHA and ARA? Will these studies and added ingredients end because there "is not difference?" Will we hear suggestions that ABM will increase IQ whereas EBM will not? linda palmer, dc author: Baby Matters *********************************************** 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