Hello Diane and Lactnetters,
It is funny you should ask this question. I am working with a client
now who has had low milk supply from the beginning. Baby lost over a pound
before I first saw her. Despite working hard at this for one month the
supply is still 2-4 oz short per day and mom has been on reglan for about 10
day, pumping, nursing frequently etc. Her mother comes to visits with her
and reports that she breastfed and all four of her babies lost a lot of
weight initially and grew slowly as infants. She says back in those days no
one worried about it. A sister is also currently pumping for a NICU premie
who was born in November. She has had low supply throughout, takes herbs and
reglan. Is there something hereditary here? Health history is not
significant for anything indicative of milk supply problems.
Judy Gutowski, BA, IBCLC, RLC
Breastfeeding Matters
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Wiessinger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: hormones from grandma?
Does anyone else have the sense that new moms who were themselves breastfed
tend to have ample milk supplies? I don't know if I'm actually seeing it,
but that's my *sense*. And I got to wondering: when the mother was
breastfed, grandma is usually with her after her own delivery. And grandma
is certainly seeing and smelling things she saw and smelled a generation
earlier. Might she, in turn, be helping to crank up the levels of prolactin
and oxytocin in the household, either through her own hormonal levels or by
providing a layer of reassurance that a bottle-feeding grandma simply
doesn't provide?
That's spinning a lot from a little, but for starters: do others have the
sense that they see "easier" milk from women who were breastfed and whose
mothers are now with them??
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY USA www.wiessinger.baka.com
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