HI CArol,

Thanks for explaining and enlightening me. I knew *that* was what you meant
by saying: 'some mothers need to know that they are NOT MAKING MILK BECAUSE
they are NOT SUPPLEMENTING ENOUGH and need to see some concrete evidence
that the baby
>needs more' but I just misread it. I thought that you meant 'not making
enough milk because they're supplementing and that's why the breasts
weren't stimulated enough to make enough milk. In other words it looked
like you wanted to say that 'no supplements should be given to a healthy
breastfed baby in order to make enough milk' and I misread it like one
would need to supplement a lot to make enough breastmilk (in a healthy
newborn baby with good breastfeeding management). That's why I didn't get
it, my fault, sorry :-)

Renate.


At 11:27 27-7-00 EDT, you wrote:
>renate, i have seen a couple of mothers who were hoping that they were making
>"some" milk and so were only supplementing their babies with a small amount.
>enough to keep the baby barely urinating, not stooling, and nursing all the
>time. i see it as sort of a denial of their true level of milk production and
>an attempt to make more milk quickly (in the way that would work for another
>mother, perhaps) by just keeping the baby nursing all the time.
>
>or in the case of donor milk and wanting to avoid using formula, they might
>not be supplementing enough (here is where the cost and the "you can't use
>donor milk 'just' because you don't make milk and don't want to use formula"
>position begins to infuriate me, not that the milk bank causes the cost
>problem, but because insurance won't cover it).
>
>sadly enough, i sometimes use the scale to "prove" the mother isn't making
>enough milk.
>


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