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Date: | Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:10:10 -0400 |
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I think it's important in these statistics to emphasize that we're
talking about a percent of women who may not ever achieve a *full* milk
supply. This is very different language than saying "not medically able
to breastfeed". I would think there are only .0001% of women who are
not medically able to breastfeed *at all*. But saying that "5% may
require some supplementation", or "5% will not be able to be fully
breastfed" leaves open the possibility of MOSTLY breastfeeding, with a
little help from some supplements. I really push to get away from the
"all or nothing" mentality.
We worked recently with a mom who was finally, after much work, able to
get about a 95% full supply. It was very hard for this mom to accept
supplementation, so knowing her situation is not all that unusual (5%
is a relatively high frequency, really) would have been helpful to her.
We let her down by over-emphasizing how rare it is not to have a full
supply (when we were working to build hers), and not allowing earlier
that there was a possibility she'd need ongoing supplementation. But at
least she kept breastfeeding - many would have given up entirely, and
she did a great job.
Anyway, just my opinion on the wording, but I think (thanks always to
Dianne Wiessinger) we need to always watch how we phrase things.
Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC
www.workandpump.com
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