I am NO MAIL but I have re-set to get mail temporarily for this question.

A colleague is counselling a mother 8 weeks post-partum, who has 
returned to the maternity unit as an outpatient for a check, because 
her episiotomy is not healing well.

The doctor has told her that it will not heal properly until she 
stops breastfeeding.

(I know...I know......)

I need some idea of where this notion has begun, and if there is any 
evidence, possibly misinterpreted, that breastfeeding slows down the 
normal healing  process in a healthy mother.

We are suggesting the mother asks the doctor for the references that 
support his assertion, of course. I have checked archives here to no 
avail.

It would be rather fun for the mother to say to the doctor, ' I 
checked this out, Doc, and I think you have slightly misunderstood 
the 1997 paper from  Bumpstead and Bampford, who found their sample 
of 3000 breastfeeding mothers actually healed *more quickly*, the 
longer they breastfed.....'

: )

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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