About abbreviations -- don't forget YYMV (for "Your Mileage May Vary") -
meaning you may have different results than others.


Judy Knopf writes:
 I got in my possession (would
>rather not say how) a copy of a proposal by a group in a
>Scandinavian country with this connection as its working
>hypothesis. This was 7-8 years ago, and I don't know what
>actually happened.

Judy, if you will let me know the principal investigators' names, I can do a
literature search and see if they've ever published anything from that study.


Julie Moy writes:

>for the mom going to Haiti - last year (last time i checked) travellers to
>Haiti were recommended to take malaria prophyllaxis such as chloroquine,
>which I don't think is compatible with breastfeeding

In Mali, back in the early 1980s and again in 1989, moms took chloroquine
and paludrine throughout pregnancy and while nursing.  Come to think of it,
*I* took chloroquine from 1981 to 1983 while I was nursing Miranda, who was
between 15 months and 35 months of age during that time, and nursed until 48
months.  Certainly no one back then ever said chloroquine was incompatible
with nursing.  In fact, Miranda herself took chloroquine for malaria
prophylaxis that entire time, as a toddler.  She used to crunch up those
bitter pills like they were candy.  All the children of U.S. embassy and
Agency for International Development personnel took malaria prophylaxis from
birth on, and many of them were nursing from moms taking chloroquine, and
the moms had taken chloroquine throughout pregnancy.  What is the supposed
incompatibility?


Sarah Barnett writes:
 It makes a
>white noise sound, sound of the ocean and a SIMULATED HEARTBEAT.

There is also a device you can attach to the crib which will periodically
jiggle it, to simulate the movements of an adult in bed next to the child.
What will they think of next?


Ros Escott sent me a wonderful cartoon showing "Superwoman" flying along,
with one arm out in front of her, and the other cradling a fat baby at her
breast.  Wonderful image!

FTWC (For Those Who Care) I do believe Alexander has finally agreed to stop
nursing, at 4.5 years!