> So - if you were in a group of mothers, could you tell which ones 
> breastfed
> their children? Would those long years of heightened oxytocin levels make 
> a
> difference? (I'll tell you one thing, when I look back I have no regrets!)


My children have always been able to tell. When they were in the school aged 
years, if friends seemed particularly at odds with their parents or were 
having some kind of issues (and certainly we weren't perfect, but at the end 
of the day the bonding was there), they would ask me if that child was 
breastfed. Often I knew whether they were or not, and my kids were never 
wrong about who was not. They knew something was missing, and it was often 
very sad to watch these families not seem to have enough empathy for their 
kids.
Thank goodness we had that great start to our relationship.
Mary Taylor, LLLL, IBCLC

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