Virginia wrote about mothers in the 1940s who couldn't let down before their
babies were whisked away by the clock watchers.

My husband's grandmother, now 87, had in a way the opposite experience when
her first child was born in Boston in the 1930s.  She had "plenty of milk but
my milk was too thin, it wasn't rich enough" so that the baby "had colic" and
didn't gain weight.

My theory of this now is that the mother was engorged, the baby only allowed
to stay at the breast long enough to take off a little of the copious
foremilk, and the result was a nasty lack of hind milk.

Leading of course to the same result -- the saving power of infant formula :(.

Elisheva Urbas, NYC

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