Note the way this information is phrased:

>The study of 117 SIDS cases in Louisiana in 1997 and 1998 found 55 >percent
>of the deaths could have been prevented had the mothers breast->fed their
>children. Studies have shown breast-feeding can help prevent >respiratory
>problems sometimes related to SIDS.

>The study also said 27 percent of the deaths could have been prevented >if
>mothers had not smoked after delivery, exposing their children to
>secondhand smoke.

No attempt to 'pull any punches' -- they are blasting the mothers, and
blaming the mothers, and to hell with whether it makes people feel guilty
whose babies died of SIDS (and the mothers were formula-feeding and/or
smoking around them).  I think this is a HUGE step forward -- to speak the
truth.  Will mothers feel bad if their babies died of SIDS and they were
formula feeding or smoking?  Of course.  Will this information perhaps save
future babies of dying from SIDS?  We can only hope so.

Kathy Dettwyler

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