Hello! My name is Shandell Ferguson, and I am a junior in the nursing program at the University of North Dakota. I am enrolled in a childbearing class, and am currently in my OB clinical rotation right now. I joined this listserv to learn about various topics. This past week I have been reading the archives and have found some of them to be very interesting. OB is a fairly new subject for me that I have not had much experience with or know much about. I am very eager to learn and I hope to have a great time learning all about babies and their mom. While I was looking through some topics about breastfeeding, one specific topic caught my eye. This topic is: does human milk help reduce infection rates in infants (preterm or low birth weight) versus formula fed infants (preterm or low birth weight). I did some research in this area, and came up with some interesting facts. According to Raisler, Alexander and O'Campo (1999), babies that are only breastfed had the lowest illness rates including diarrhea, cough or wheeze and ear infections. Also their results showed that babies who had some breast milk but mostly formula had no protection. *********************************************** 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