Dear Lactnet Friends:

Allyson Michaels laments the lack of prenatal counseling  to identify risky
nipples.

Breastfeeding can't be the best until birth practices are changed in favor
of the biologic template and away from routine technology.

One cause of flat nipples is edema. Edema results from a technologically
driven birth, with IV fluids and synthetic pitocin. The edema persists, as
pitocin drives fluid into the third space; women have ankles that are more
swollen at the end of the first week postpartum than at the end of
pregnancy. Here's a study describing that:

"Women received about 3 liters IV fluid:
2 liters in labor
1 liter postpartum

67–69% of participants who received IV fluids experienced firm and tender
or very firm and very tender breasts on postpartum Days 7, 8 and 9, (when,
according to the literature  one would expect engorgement to be resolving)
as compared to 0% of participants who did not receive IV fluid"

Maternal intravenous fluids and postpartum breast changes: a pilot
observational
study

International Breastfeeding Journal   N = 17

Sonya Kujawa-Myles ([log in to unmask])
Joy Noel-Weiss ([log in to unmask])
Sandra Dunn ([log in to unmask])
Wendy E Peterson ([log in to unmask])
Kermaline Jean Cotterman

​warmly,​

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
Author:* Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy*
www.nikkileehealth.com
https://www.facebook.com/nikkileehealth

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