What I found to be truly irritating about this letter is that he is an MD, but he is a PSYCHIATRIST!!!!!!!
   
  We know how much inacurate information some OBs and Peds have on breastfeeding (not the wonderful MDs on this list, of course). I cannot imagine the lack of information this doctor has on the topic of breastfeeding. I do not know if his statements about blood pressure are acurate or not. I am a well-educated, but lay, LLLL. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that his statement is accurate. Breastfeeding is the biologic norm, so perhaps those fluctuation in BP are in some way beneficial.
   
  Grrrr
  Kellie Whitney, LLLL


  
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:39:47 -0700
From: Judie LC 
Subject: NYT letters

I agree about the lack of good information in those
letters, Kimberly.
My mouth was hanging open in surprise and dismay after
reading Dr. Gross' letter about how much more effort
breastfeeding infants expend then bottle-feeding
infants. And, unfortunately, many will believe his
information is correct because he is an MD. :(

>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/science/20webletters.html?pagewanted=5&_r=3
> 
> "To the Editor:
> 
> You note that breast-fed babies are less likely to
> become obese. That may 
> have something to do with the extreme effort babies
> must expend to empty the 
> breast.
> 
> As they do, their blood pressure rises sharply, then
> falls back to normal 
> when they take their mouths off the breast and come
> up for air. By contrast, 
> bottle-fed babies don't expend nearly as much
> effort, and their blood 
> pressure doesn't go up as much. Indeed, mothers who
> bottle-feed often 
> enlarge the hole in the bottle's nipple to make
> their baby's first job 
> easier.
> 
> Dr. Herbert S. Gross
> Rockville, Md.
> The writer is a clinical professor of psychiatry at
> the University of 
> Maryland School of Medicine."




 		
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