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This refers back to the confidence game someone mentioned a few days ago.
And many moms are not confident that they have "enough" milk for many
reasons. A curse of living in an industrialized scientic/technology based
country. A curse which we manage to pass on by example etc. to other
countries and moms who haven't had "supply" problems heretofor.
The most common reason - all over the world- to wean is "I don't have enough
milk."
In my personal oversupply case the baby was gaining 1 lb per week, nursed
briefly, erratically, was fussy, gassy, I was overfull, had strong letdown
pain in breasts. Looking back over the intervening 30 + years I can see it
was a lactation management problem, wish I knew then what I know now about
tamping down an exuberant supply.
Back then hardly anyone ever had an "oversupply" problem. I think we see it
more commonly today. And I think part of it comes from all the "rules" we
impart. Nurse x minutes; use each breast, each feeding; and so on.
Instead of learning about baby feeding from watching other moms sit on the
stoop and nurse, we learn from books and classes. I don't know the answer
to how we fix it, I hope that more and more moms nursing will hel as BF
becomes the "norm." Sincerely, Pat in SNJ
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