>One important note:  even though
>reasearch has indicated that mothers who breastfeed have increased
>remineralization than mother's who don't breastfeed, there is no evidence to
>prove that this also happens to mother's who have this disease - at least
>this is what her endocrinologist at the U of WA has told her.

There is also "no evidence to prove that this DOESN'T happen to mothers who
have this disease."  No studies either way in women with osteogenesis
imperfecta, but studies in "normal" women to show that bone density is
increased by breastfeeding, so what are the odds??  Odds are that that bone
density is also increased in women with osteogenesis imperfecta.  There is
no good reason to assume otherwise.

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University