From this week's (15 Dec 1997) Time, page 35, Health Report:  Good
News/Bad News

The Good News

Suck It Up.  Pediaticians now say babies should be breast-fed [sic] for
at least a year--rather than just 6 months.  Doing so should help them
fight ear infections, diarrhea and other infant ailments.  While that's
great for babies, it's tough on moms:  feeding takes 6 hours a day.

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Kathy

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Mom to Andrew, Abigail and Molly
LLL Leader, AAPL/OL for VA and MD/DE/DC
[log in to unmask]          Great Mills, MD, USA

"Within the child lies the fate of the future."   Maria Montessori
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