Jan said: <<I'd love to have a collection of sound studies that looked at many of these issues and then came up with some good, hard, solid, research based guidelines for mothers. Anyone out there have lots of money and nothing to do with their time?>> My kids are richer than I am and they have plenty of time :)....hmmmm This may be oversimplifying things a little, but since human milk is different and unknown completely in structure than any other milk we've ever known, wouldn't it stand to reason that if you left out a living, anti-cootie substance like human milk that it wouldn't go "bad" for quite a long period of time? Maybe we're so well-preserved ourselves, which is why we're sicker yet lasting longer? Like we're walking twinkies? I don't know just thinking out loud. I'm not a fan of making babies sick on anything, so don't get me wrong - not a proponent of leaving out my milk to possibly be up all night with a sick child :). Maybe reframe our attitudes about "milk" in general, like everything else :) ? If we see that cow's milk is made for the nourishment of baby cows and not baby humans, then maybe it shouldn't be in the general human chain of consumption? We could then move that fat research money from studying cow's milk into the bank accounts of those studying human milk! Kristine Owens CLD CD CAPPA Washington State Representative http://www.kristineowens.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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