<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> As a staunch supporter of breastfeeding I hate to even ask this question but it seems important. Given that one of the best reasons to breastfeed is that mother's milk carries antibodies that get passed on to the baby to help protect against disease, is it possible that a celiac mom could "trigger" celiac disease in her genetically predisposed babe? In other words, if the little one had the gene for celiac's disease, would handing that baby the antibodies for celiac disease through the milk cause the baby to begin "fighting off" wheat gliadin so that when the babies of celiacs wean, they would then pick up fighting off the "grain offenders" themselves? I found myself wondering about this last night, because I breastfed my celiac son who began reacting shortly after we weaned; and I see an unusually high number of posts about celiac babies here by nursing moms. -- Linda Blanchard http://www.ccgs.com celiac books by mail