Okay, I have been reading about this everytime i log into lactnet.  I am one 
more example of having letdown after I weaned my youngest.  I had no idea 
this happened to other people.  I was uneasy about why my body was 
reacting this way after I had weaned my son for a good year before I took the 
job as the hopital LC.  As I was teaching moms and using my own anatomy to 
show positioning, especially the left side (yes over my clothes) I noticed my 
left breast was getting bigger.  NO kidding.  I kept denying it was letdown.... 
Until I got in the shower one day..Ya you know what happened.  I went to my 
OB/Gyn to get a blood level of prolactin.  At that time not knowing it wouldn't 
show any increase due to the physiology of when prolatcin peaks after ones 
child is beyond a tiny newborn.  When the level came back "normal" I thought 
it was all in my head.  I even had to get a cloth breast to show latching.  I 
was beginning to get lopsided.
To make a long story short, I agree, someone should do a research paper on 
this.  I feel I could have started nursing a baby.  Still do at times.  That would 
be a hoot being in my 40 something and sending my first born to college now.
What a powerful drive our bodies have.  I had no idea, I was one of so many.
I wonder, would a Grandma be able to nurse her grandchild, if her daughter 
could not.  Maybe this happened long ago in our hunter gathering society.  I 
find it facinating.

Thanks for listening,
robin

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