Someone posted:

"A friend of mine at work had a granddaughter who was bf for several
months (close to a yr, I think) and developed serious environmental
allergies and asthma anyway . She was always sickly and eventually, she
died at age 5 from asthma related problems."

I suspect (though it can never be proven, one way or the other) that this
child would have died within a few months of birth if she had been
bottle-fed from the beginning.  Would this have been better than living to
age 5 years and then dying?  That's a question for the philosophers and
religious leaders, the child's mother, and the child herself.  Would the
mother have grieved less if the child had died at a younger age?

I recall from an ABC special of prenatal diagnosis and fetal termination for
genetic 'defects' one very articulate young man with cystic fibrosis, who
knew that he would probably not live a full life.  He said "I've never met
anyone with CF, no matter how sick, who wishes they had never been born."

Perhaps more pertinent is to ask the question: "If the child had been
breastfed for a longer length of time (at least 2.5 years, say) would the
child's health have been so much better that she wouldn't have died at age 5
from asthma?"

Kathy Dettwyler, breastfed for 18 months (THANKS MOM!!), breastfed my own 3
children for a total of almost 10 years.




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