Hi Ros


>At ILCA this year Michael Woolridge talked about being careful not to
>downgrade supply too vigorously in the early period as it may lose
>its capacity to upgrade later.
I was not at this conferance, perhaps you can expand a bit on what he said,
because it happened to me with both my babies and I have seen similar in
practice
  We have had some interesting clinical
>discussion around this point and it seemed to ring lots of bells.
>When you see a mother with insufficient milk, check whether she had
>heaps of milk early on and how it was managed.  Many of these mothers
>have a history of engorgement.  I am now more inclined to encourage
>them to express and keep the generous supply up, even if they thow it
>away (eg in the shower), rather than to work to downgrade their
>supply too soon or too fast.
I will be looking into this, personally I didn't have heaps first time
around, but did get mastitis second time around 4 weeks, later I wished to
be back in the same postition, I ended up weaning onto formula at 6 months.
(I still shudder when I think about it!)
>
>Jackie :-)