Anne Andrianos's question about how many breastmilk feeds it takes per day to have an impact on a baby's health sent me thru my files for a talk I'm sure I heard. Can't find the notes. This is what I *remember* hearing: Someone looked at rates of various illnesses for formula-fed, cow milk-fed, mixed feed (formula and breastmilk), and exclusively breastfed babies. Exclusive bfing, of course, provided by far the best protection. But mixed-feed babies were well ahead of those who had no human milk - The graph looked like a high plateau for the breastfed babies, then a cliff between breastfed and mixed-feed, followed by a slope down as the amount of human milk decreased, followed by another cliff between *some* breastmilk and *no* breastmilk. I also remember the plain cow milk-fed babies having lower rates of certain illnesses than formula-fed babies. Interesting! Was it perhaps Allan Cunningham who gave a talk like this? Anyone remember? *And where did I file my notes???* Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY