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Dr. Katie Schenk's avatar

Dr Offit, I have great respect for your important work. But please don't call breastfeeding cheap! The cost of breastfeeding is the opportunity cost of women's active participation in the workplace. Whatever the quality of the evidence on infection prevention, to call breastfeeding "cheap" and "readily available" is to ignore the many social and physiological barriers to breastfeeding which must be taken into account.

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Jim Sowder's avatar

Both my kids were breast fed and had zero respiratory infections in their first few years.

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