Hi Julie-Ann,
i think that this is such new territory, we really don't know. It would be
valuable for all of us to take note of these cases and maybe in the next
year we can compile all of this information and see what we find. Perhaps,
we need to be asking all of our moms if they have seen an effect after
vaccination because if only moms who experience a problem contact us, we
will be getting a very skewed picture. Not sure if the government is
actually tracking any of this, so it may be up to the lactation community
working with moms to get this information. As with any vaccinations, the
goal is to separate coincidence from causation, which takes a lot of data
points to really be significant.

Sharon Knorr, BfUSA Counselor
Colorado, USA

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:05 AM Julie-Ann Toalston <
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> Hello -
>
> There was talk a few weeks ago about a mother whose COVID-19 vaccine
> apparently caused a decline in milk production.
>
> Interesting story -- Last week a colleague here in Connecticut received a
> call from a mother who tested positive for COVID-19 along with mild
> symptoms. Because she had been pumping on a regular basis, she noticed her
> milk volume quickly become scant, even saying that the color and
> consistency of her milk looked like colostrum again! The baby also became
> fussy, presumably from not being able to get her little belly full. Out of
> curiosity, does anyone know of remedies (other than the standard/common
> ones) that promote making milk when mother is sick?
>
> Reporting on myself -- I got my 2nd dose of the Moderna vaccine a couple of
> weeks ago and I am not sure whether it affected breastfeeding my four
> month-old baby. No noticeable change in milk production, but one week after
> the shot in my left arm, I started to come down with mastitis in my right
> breast. (I caught the early signs and healed myself before it became
> severe.)  Is that a coincidence or not? I don't know! It reminds me of when
> my seven year-old daughter broke out in hives for the first time ever about
> one week after her very first flu shot last fall. Is that coincidence or
> not?
>
> I'd love to hear any of your thoughts or ideas about this.
>
> Julie-Ann Toalston, IBCLC
> Connecticut, USA
>
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