>> 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