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." Anyone care to differ.... [log in to unmask] and/or [log in to unmask] 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