What is remarkable is that so many of the faithful, priests and religious included, so quickly and outrightly rejected that teaching while clinging to their Catholic identity. If the Church is wrong on this, then isn’t there a strong chance that she is wrong on every other moral issue? I don’t get the pick and choose attitude when it comes to religious practice. Either you think the Church has and teaches Truth, or you don’t. What good is the cafeteria plan if you don’t trust the nutritional value of the offerings?

I would have preferred a more tainted victor for Franken, to make up for Y2K when another body of government workers spat at the voters and appointed a clown.

absolutely. I have to say that it IS good that SoMG worked this out but there has been tons of well done, accurate and authoritative research done on human breast milk.

This information can also be found in the Laleche League leaders manual. I was such a leader years ago.
I also had a dreadful experience after my 3rd child was born. I was in such poor physical condition that my maternal IgC was low - in otherwords my immune system was depleted. I had been ill throughout my pregnancy with repeated colds, flu etc and my daughter became very ill about 1 week after birth. I became ill about two days after delivery. My daughter spiked a high fever, very unusual in a breast fed baby and also had a bilirubin count over 315. We were hospitalized for about a week. It was determined she caught a virus from me. I’m not sure if I have all the facts straight but I also suffered a great deal after this too with repeated breast infections. It took me about 3 years to regain my health.
While writing this I remember I have a good book exclusively on breast milk. I’m gonna go and check it out!

As for the 6 year old, I really don’t think this is appropriate but I guess we don’t know all the facts, so I’m gonna reserve judgement. After all I breastfed my last child until age 3.

So it’s a sort of special effect in newborns only? Hmmm…God believer or Atheist, that is still pretty amazing. It’s also amazing that in this day and age, we have the means to even know something like that. This must be why, as Rosie pointed out, that after 2 years of age, the health benefits disappear? Because a 2 year old intestines begin to act like an adults?

Thanks, that was really something to know. I only breastfed each of my kids for three months. I know, shame on me. I wish I had done it longer now. Of course I gave birth when it was still okay to smoke in the hospital rooms! We sure have come a long way!