Here's another of those generic fence-straddling articles about breastfeeding currently available on-line in the Los Angeles Times. There is a rather surprising quote from a neonatologist at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Jose Perez stating: (as a reason to maybe not feel so bad if you chose not to breastfeed or can't for some reason) "...immunity protection only works for a couple of months until the baby starts making its own immunities." http://www.latimes.com/health/reports/pregnancy/ Sighing, Sue Jacoby, IBCLC Fresno, CA ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html