>> My bipolar daughter (16) was bf for over 4 years (and is in your study,
Kathy!)--so I'd hope that she rec'd all the benefits of breast milk and then
some.<<

After reading a few follow-up posts to my original post, I am concerned that
perhaps some may have construed my comments to suggest that lack of
breastfeeding could be a sole cause of depression. May it never be!  I was
thinking in terms of multiple causative factors, but focusing on this as one
possible aspect.  Please, no one take offense!  I have also suffered
depression and I was breastfed for 6 mos (though solids were forced down me
starting at 3 wks-- ugh!), so I am *not* casting aspersions upon the
depressed; it's just my nature to ask questions.

-Lisa Marasco, BA, LLLL, IBCLC