At 9:45 PM -0500 4/7/02, Kris Rogers wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>    A Mom I'm working with has asked me to check your collective
>wisdom.  Her baby is 10 weeks old and for the past several weeks,
>her breasts have been very uneven.  This has persisted despite her
>best efforts to increase stimulation on the lesser producing breast.
>The right is producing over 4 ounces per pumping and the left only 1
>ounce, which has remained unchanged since the baby's birth.  There
>has been no history of mastitis or engorgement.  The only theory
>I've been able to come up with involves an auto accident about 3
>years ago in which the steering wheel impacted her chest, but she
>doesn't remember if one side was more bruised than the other at that
>time.  Is there any other possible scenario I may have overlooked?
>Other than starting most feedings on the lower producing side and
>pumping it for more stimulation, is there anything she can do to try
>to "even things out"?  I have reassured her that her baby can get
>plenty of milk with only one breast producing milk, but she'd like
>to look a little less "lop-sided" if she could.

Sounds like me.  I have a tremendous size difference and production
difference with no injury history to explain it.  My mother is built
the same way.  I have never been able to even them up.


Maren

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