Liz and others: Since I seem to have reLactnetted in the middle of a
thread, I may have missed something, and please correct me if so. Since
oxytocin is released during a feeding, there will of course be uterine
contractions. I think that the question should be whether they are *strong
enough* to cause miscarriage. Just basing my thoughts on logic, seems to
me that this would be a very individual thing, among the factors being
how much oxytocin a specific woman produces, where the fetus is implanted
(wouldn't it be more vulnerable in some places and less in others?), how
often bf takes place. That's just off the top of my head. I would hate to
be too dogmatic on something like this. If a woman has lost one fetus
while bfing, I think it would behoove her to think a few times. On the
other hand, of course, it is a fairly well-known statistic that about 20%
of all conceptions fail, so "blaming" bf is certainly not fair! On the
third hand, has anyone ever considered that this may be another mechanism
of Mom Nature to space births? On the same order as LAM. Or is this too
off-the-wall? Anybody? Judy Knopf in Beer Sheva, Israel