Catrina Lavoie never gave a second thought to her decision to breast-feed when she became pregnant with twins. She successfully nursed her daughter, so she had no qualms about going the same route with the twin boys.
A six-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was one month old checked into the Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center recently. A few days later, she checked out, starting to make her own insulin. Soon afterward, with her doctors' direction, her mother disconnected her insulin pump -- the lifeline and security blanket she had relied on