Sandra Steingraber or anyone else,
What is the effect of total duration of breastfeeding on fat-soluble toxin
concentrations in breastmilk?
Is the first milk more contaminated than the milk produced in the second
year of a child's life, even if the mother continues to live the same way as
before?  Does anyone know?  Is there any reason to state a preference that
donors to milk banks, especially when the milk is given to tiny premature
babies, be mothers who have given birth and breastfed before their current
nursling's birth?

I speculate, too, that if the amount of contamination in milk declines
sharply from the initiation of breastfeeding to the first 6,9 or 12 months
thereafter, then any increased danger of contamination from continuing to
breastfeed over 3-4 years may be nearly nonexistent.  I don't know whether
this is the case.  Does anyone?

Likewise, a woman who has experienced multiple pregnancy losses will have a
lower total toxin load because each fetus and placenta will have taken som
toxins out of her.  But is this clinically significant?  Any takers?

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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