In a message dated 4/7/99 8:39:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Denise Hewson
writes:

<< QUESTION: Is it dangerous to the eyesight for very nearsighted women to
 breast feed? In Europe, especially Italy, doctors tell women with impaired
 vision never to breast feed, but my U.S. gynecologist had never heard of that
 being a problem. >>

In _Aristocrats_, a history of four of the daughters of the 2nd Duke of
Richmond, by Stella Tillyard, she discusses the way all four women fed their
kids.   The second married the first peer of Ireland (one of her sons was
Edmund Fitzgerald) and her doctors told her that it would be dangerous to her
"weak eyes" to breastfeed her children.  She wrote very movingly in letters
to her sisters about how sad that made her, and hired wetnurses instead for
the children (all 19 of them -- no LAM!).

The book is a great look at the intimate lives of upperclass 18th century
women.

Elisheva Urbas
NYC

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