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In a message dated 7/19/2005 4:51:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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Mom is worried that the milk supply has gone so soon (at 4 months not 8
months) with this current baby. She would like to breastfeed this baby
until 1 year of age.
There is no history of injury or surgery to the breast or chest wall.
Any ideas as to what may be happening? Any suggestions to help this Mom
The only answer I can give you is incidental and based on my own experience.
My left breast leaks milk, but has never been a "producer" of milk. When I
pump, if I get 1/2 to 1 oz of milk from it, that is a good session, in
comparison to the 3 to 4 oz from the right breast. This has been true since my
child has been born. She always nurses first on the Right, and if still hungry
or if I am just tired and sore (she is teething and gnaws the heck out of my
nipples) I switch her to the left. She is perfectly satisfied from my
right, but even as a small infant she rarely was nursed from the left, because of
the lack of milk. She is healthy and happy and perfectly nourished.
Again I say look at the baby. You say she is gaining appropriate weight,
and she seems happy. Why are you trying to fix what isn't broken. Her body is
for whatever reason compensating the fact that her left side is less the
"producer" than the right, and the baby isn't suffering. I do agree that she
needs to get a mamogram to be safe, but I really think all will be fine. A lot
of moms that attend the LLL group I attend find that there is a "preferred
breast" and that that breast almost always produces more.
Renee Drake RN CLC
I make milk....What's YOUR superpower???
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