Dear Louise,
        I'll give you your quote:
>Sadly, they have not missed that part of the residency or medical school...
>'Cause it ain't there.
Medical School Texts are woefully lacking, but I beg to differ with your
comment:

>They have not read that part of the literature,
>cause there ain't that much litterature in peer-reviewed, highly
>regarded

Please, check out "The Lactation Consultant's Topical Review and
Bibliography of the Literature on Breastfeeding" edited by Mary-Margaret
Coates, Published by LLLI, 1990, contains 173 pages of just titles of
articles, roughly 400 journals are cited and 30 of which publish regulary on
breastfeeding....and the research has literally exploded since then...

such as: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of
Diseases of Children, American Journal of Obstectrics and Gynecology,
American Journal of Public Health, Annals of Allergy, Archives of the
Diseases of Children (London), British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical
Association Journal, Clinical Endocrinology, Clinical Pediatrics, Clinics in
Perinatology, Early Human Development, Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, Journal
of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Journal of pediatrics, Journal
of the American Dietetic Association, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics,
Lancet, MCN: American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, New England Journal
of Medicine, Obstectrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics Research, Pediatrics,
Social Science and Medicine,.... and on and on and on...not to mention
Journal of Human Lactation...

to paraphrase from... jeeze who is escaping me currently, but to paraphrase
their twist on this:  to have medical professionals who deal daily with the
health of women and their children who aren't trained in nor keep current in
breastfeeding is like having someone working in a cardiac care unit that
doesn't know how to read an EKG and hasn't been trained in CPR...

It is out there, that it is ignored or overlooked is the issue.



Anne E. Robb, MAT,

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