I am working with a woman who has had a bizarre reaction to her ejection reflex while nursing both of her children. About 5 seconds after the child goes to breast she becomes anxious, then the feeling progresses to what she describes as "almost anger" and says she often feels like she wants to run. As soon as the milk ejects the feelings subside and do not seem to recur with subsequent ejections in the same nursing session. This happened with her first child who is two, disappeared while she was pregant tho the child was still nursing, then started happening after the birth of the second child again. She is currently tandem nursing both children. She denies any other symtoms of PPD or hx of depression or anxiety. This symptom causes her much distress, she appears very caring and patient with her children. My assumption is that it is a paradoxical reaction to oxytocin as it subsides as soon as ejection is attained. Also the symtptom decreased during pregnancy, when often women who are tandem nursing seem to have a built in resistance to oxy. (ie most pregnant women are not predisposed to preterm labor even while nursing during pregnancy, the explaination in the literature is that there is resistance to oxy. Am I assuming too much here?) Sorry if this is long, but this mother is desperate for an explaination if not a solution. She asked her MD who simply told her to pray about it. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html