Mary, I must've misread it too. As the mother of 38 y.o. twins, I really
don't want to contemplate 40 year olds nursing!

Made me think of *Little Britain* and the excerpts I've seen re: "Bitty."

Patricia, we've had a number of >40 y.o. MOTs who've produced for twins
just fine in our multiples group over the years.

Karen G


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> Date:    Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:28:57 +0000
> From:    "Westra, Mary" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: breastfeeding 40 year olds
>
> Did anyone else misread this?  Gave me a good laugh anyway.  Mostly I've
> only worked with moms who wanted to nurse only for a few years...
>
>  "Does anyone have any information or handouts for moms that want to
> breast-feed after 40 years old and beyond?"
>
> Woke up a little quirky this morning.
>
> M.Westra R.N., IBCLC
>
>
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> Date:    Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:27:28 -0400
> From:    Patricia Loewy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: helping mothers breastfeed after 40
>
> I don't know of any handout and I wanted to ask why mothers over 40 would
> be a group by themselves.
>
> I was an older mom when I had my kids and heard from another older mom
> that it was harder for us oldies to breastfeed. I researched the matter,
> but couldn't find anything in the literature (other than anecdotal evidence
> from LLL) that age in itself had any impact on lactation (with the
> exclusion of other factors for moms > 40).
>
> I found this in a 2007 study:
>
> "Although advanced maternal age has been associated with breastfeeding
> (2,4,5–8,11,12), in our study this association was not confirmed." (Risk
> factors related to intention to breastfeed, early weaning and suboptimal
> duration of breastfeeding, Fani Ladomenou, Anthony Kafatos and Emmanouil
> Galanakis). None of the sourced literature focused on whether age *in
> itself * was a risk factor.
>
> Since older moms are over-represented in "lactational risk groups" if you
> will - IVF, c/section etc., it wouldn't be far-fetched to assume that the
> above mentioned association in the literature is in connection with that
> fact.
>
> If anyone has research saying otherwise, I would love to see it.
>
> I hope you don't mind my "rant", it's just that the attitude of the
> medical establishment to my pregnancies (giving me a hard time choosing a
> midwife over an OB who specializes in high risk pregnancies, suggesting
> countless ultrasounds in the last trimester, even though my pregnancies
> were all uneventful) already made me a bit insecure, hearing that my age
> might impact my ability to make enough milk was needless to say not helpful.
>
> So I would be very careful to put a women over 40 automatically in a
> category that needs specific support, without her having any of the known
> risk factors. And if she does, she would need exactly the same support that
> a younger woman would.
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Karen Gromada
www.karengromada.com/

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