Help!! Has anyone heard of labial adhesions being caused by or related to
breastfeeding??? (PNPs out there - Pat??)

Today, I worked with a very experienced PNP for the first time. She had a
baby diagnosed with labial adhesions (in which, in lay terms, the vaginal
labia are sort of "stuck together", probably as an end result after some sort
of irritation which caused the skin to abrade and then heal together). The
PNP told one of my students that the condition was caused by the mother's
hormones via breastfeeding. When I questioned her that I had never heard of
this in my Lactation practice or in the literature, she insisted that she had
seen the condition many times, including in one of her own children, and that
it was definitely related to breastfeeding, and that she had only seen the
condition in breastfed children.

Please tell me that this is another one of "those conditions" on which
breastfeeding is erroneously blamed.

Kathy Rubin in NJ
IBCLC, RN, C (Maternal/Infant), APN, C (Family Nurse Practitioner)
PhD Candidate at Rutgers, NJ College of Nursing

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