Thanks to Jon Ahrendsen for his thoughtful and well-balanced post. It is very important that we all bear in mind the critical points he presented, especially the place of culture in breastfeeding. Religion, as a part of culture, certainly is legitimate in our discussion group, IMO, of course as it relates to breastfeeding. Jon put it so much better than I did. Just wanted to second his post. There. Judy Knopf in Israel