Nikki wrote:
>The notion that the new mother has no milk is reinforced by the phrase in
English "milk coming in."  Is that phrase used in other languages, where the
mother is deemed to be milkless until the milk arrives a few days after the
birth?<

I usually make a joke about this. I ask, *Where do people think the milk
comes from? The milkman?* Then I go on to explain that mothers start to make
milk during pregnancy, and that the *first milk* is so concentrated that
newborns only need tiny amounts, and so on.

Most mothers are not aware that milk is milk is milk, maybe because the
formula industry has taught them otherwise with their *special* products for
hungry babies, colic, older babies, etc. The general public does not realise
that these are simply attempts to reproduce separately the MANY important
properties found in the real thing, human milk.

norma

Norma Ritter, IBCLC, RLC
Breastfeeding Matters in the Capital Region
www.NormaRitter.com

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