Hi Lactnetters,=20 I have another eye related "reason to wean" for you. My brother is a = grad student at Iowa State. One of his fellow students has a new baby. = At about 2 months of age, this baby had an eye infection. The mother = was told by the ped that this was caused by breastfeeding and would go = away when she weaned. This info was relayed by the baby's father to my = brother who then asked a med student friend how/why this was possible. = The med student said he thought it was becasue the baby was near the = mother's breast alot and the breast (i.e. skin) was dirty, therefore = causing the infection. Needless to say, I shot off a message to my = brother (this was all over e-mail) with more breastfeeding info than he = probably wanted to know and suggested that the mother's breastmilk might = even help her baby's eye infection if she applied directly to the eye. = I never got an update on this so I don't know how it turned out. Kathy Koch Oak Harbor, WA (soon to be Alexandria, VA) [log in to unmask]