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Maureen Minchin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Jun 1998 02:38:22 +1100
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> Sometimes certain drugs the mother is
taking could have an estrogen effect on the baby.<
Not my field at all, but following on from Jack, I would wonder about the
phyto-oestrogen content of breastmilk as a possibility in these days of go
heavy on soy: that and phthalates to be acquired by exposure to plastics
such as PVC, can-liners, and maybe other synthetic oestrogen-mimics we
don't know we're exposed to..

Maureen Minchin, IBCLC. Christ Church Vicarage, 14 Acland St., St.Kilda,
Vic. 3182 Australia. tel/fax: 61 3 9537 2640
"Taking paths of least resistance is what makes rivers - and people -
crooked." poster in Palmerston North NZ bookshop...

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