My most alarming personal "experiment" was with "Cathy," a dairy farmer. Her baby was a screamer, and just miserable. By 3 months, he could crawl across the room, writhing in misery, screaming the entire way. Cathy and I had spoken extensively about removing dairy from her diet, but she wouldn't budge. At 6 months, we got together, and her baby was a new child. He was smiling, no longer crawling, happy, just a lovely little boy. The difference? She had taken dairy out of her diet. She was pleased with her new child. She came back at 7 months with a screaming, writhing, miserable child. What happened? She thought the non-dairy diet was "too hard", her in-laws who owned the farm they worked did not believe dairy was the problem, and her pediatrician believed the diet was nonsense. She's since had 2 more children, all miserable. Thankfully, she has found a new group of friends. Best wishes from rainy Ohio, Heather "Sam" Doak << How about citing the AAP study called "Effect of a Low-Allergen Maternal Diet on Colic Among Breastfed Infants: A Randomized, Controlled, Trial" in the December 7, 2005 issue of Pediatrics??? It's available at http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/116/5/e709. Can't wait for him to read THAT!!! Debbie Gillespie, IBCLC, RLC Sunny Tempe, AZ>> *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html