Kathe says,

<< Sounds like co-producer has issues herself.  I know there was a quote
 from Dr. Neifert around the time of the Wall Street Journal article (93
 or 94) about the 5 %, but I've never seen any documentation.  Is there
 any? >>

Well, I did research this.  There is a statement about this in Neifert's 1983
book, "Lactation".  It is not referenced.  I called Betty Crase, who at that
time was with LLL.  She too was interested and had researched where this study
(?) came from.  She found it in Dana Raphael's book, The Tender Gift (1971)
which referenced an article published in 1958 which cited an article from
about 1932 which has been lost in the antiquity of time.  If you read the
book, "Infant Feeding, the Physiological Basis" which is a special bulletin
put out by WHO and edited by James Akre, there was a study done on women in
Africa (I'm sorry, I don't remember the countries), but they looked at many
many women (over 1000), and found that not a single woman was unable to
produce milk for their babies.

Perhaps in our culture, in which there is no support, where women are
encouraged to put their babies on artificial (man-developed) feeding
schedules, where babies are conceived in women who would otherwise be
infertile, where mothers are put on some type of artificial birth control as
they are walking out of the hospital, or at 4 to 6 weeks postpartum, where
babies are routinely separated from their mothers at birth, and labor & birth
interventions are rife; where teenage girls are encouraged to have breast
implants (I understand some parents give implants to their daughters as
gifts), or women have reduction surgery without being informed that perhaps it
might impact breastfeeding, where babies are supplemented as a matter of
course, and bottles are given routinely -- maybe then, here in western culture
(we are SO enlightened!!) there are 5% of women who can't produce enough milk.
But is it inherant?  Or as a result of our culture?  And is it REALLY 5%?
200,000 women per year?  IN the US?  We need a good study.  If a study is done
that states that if a baby doesn't gain 30 grams/day over a three week period
of time, that mother has insufficient milk supply -- is that an adequate
study?  I don't know....what do you all think?

Jan Barger -- who is usually in Wheaton, but is currently in Malvern, PA