Morgan writes:

The  maternal grandmother died of breast cancer at a young age.  The mother 
is  aware that the longer she can maintain breastfeeding, the more the 
risks of  both her, and her daughter, developing breast cancer, are  mitigated.

I'm therefore looking for cites, on breast cancer risk and  breastfeeding - 
much of what I've found on established sites, such as Kellymom  etc, are 
quite old.  I'd be really happy if one could be found with a  nice pithy line 
to quote, about the duration of breastfeeding being an  
important factor.  :-)


Morgan,
 
I know the research on duration being related to the mother's risk factors, 
 but am not aware of any research on duration of the child's breastfeeding 
being  related, so that may not interest this father. There may be something 
I'm not  aware of but I thought it was more the early days/week of 
breastfeeding for the  girl child, and then the child growing up, having a baby and 
that baby  breastfeeding that was more important. Perhaps it might be good 
to focus more on  the health, now and future of the child, in the many other 
ways that  breastfeeding might have an impact. Since I have seen mothers try 
to use  breastfeeding as a separator tool against the baby's father, ( not 
taking away  the critical nature of it for the child) it might be good to 
focus on how this  is a critical part of normal development for the child and 
say nothing about the  mother?
 
Just musing,
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA


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