The pediatrician Catherine Buch also was quoted as saying re; the
one-year period:  "The main antibodies [from the mother] come early,"
she said.  "You can argue that a child is much less likely to have a
[bad]reaction to mother's milk than formula, but nothing I've seen in the
scientific literature supports this protacted need for breast-feeding."

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Text of article can be found at:  www.phillynews.com.
(Note:  the negative stuff tends to be in the second half of the
article.)

Melissa Kirsch