Has anyone else seen the most recent Newsweek? I was at my doctor's office today (the only time I can read the mainstream press with a clear conscience) and the cover caught my eye. It's about "your child's brain". I scanned the whole article, which is fascinating in general with info about brain and cognitive development, and the importance of parent-child interaction, but two things immediately caught my eye. First, there is no apparent mention of breastfeeding in the whole article (I plan to actually thoroughly read it before I claim that's absolutely true), and secondly the first page contains the following sentence: "He <the baby> cries at night; you feed him, holding his gaze because nature has seen to it that the distance from a parent's crooked elbow to his <sic> eyes exactly matches the distance at which a baby focuses." I don't have *major* objections to the use of the "generic" male gender for the baby, but this seems to me to be a very inappropriate use of the generic male gender for the feeding parent!! (Just wanted to bring my fellow letter-writing zealots' attention to this...) -- Anne Montgomery, M.D. [log in to unmask] Olympia, WA