Weight loss while breastfeeding and weaning
While I agree that *most* moms would not quit breastfeeding because they
fail to lose weight while nursing, some do cite this as the reason for
weaning.  I have encountered quite a few individual moms who have told
me post weaning how happy they were to have finally weaned because they
had tried unsuccessfully to lose weight while nursing, then heard that
they needed to wean to lose weight, and wouldn't you know it, as soon as
they weaned, the weight dropped off. (paraphrasing what I've been told)

I have a variety of theories of why this happened (and/or these moms
perceived this happening) but the point of this is that indeed some moms
do wean with the specific purpose of being able to shed postpartum
weight.

Catherine Zeta-Jones told People magazine exuberantly last year in a
special issue about celebrity moms that she stopped breastfeeding
because she wanted to lose weight.  This was the quote they chose from a
6 page article to enlarge and print as a teaser in both the table of
contents and early in the article.

On the weight loss issue I want to reiterate what another poster said,
that Kay Dewey's talk at ABM (the Academy, not the inferior product) on
this issue, it was excellent and very thorough, a highlight of the
meeting.  One thing she pointed out but I can't seem to find in my notes
involved weight loss and nursing past the initial months.  Many of the
examples that have been cited on LN could be explained by this, but not
by me as I seem utterly incapable of articulating it coherently.


ER's Luca
Moving on to ER - while I was thrilled to see the drug rep issue
highlighted on ER, I was disappointed that they chose the 'extremist
peacenik on the edge of sanity' character as the physician vehicle to
deliver the message.  His reaction to the rep got just as many eye rolls
from his colleagues as all of his cost saving suggestions and came
immediately after his blow up with Pratt, who argued the position of
practicing medicine in Chicago versus "in a mud hut" (Pratt's words, not
mine).  Now if one of the 'normal' docs had freaked out on the rep, to
me that would have made a bigger impression on the general viewing
audience.  This is, after all, the same guy who earlier in the episode
argued a very controversial perspective on the options for the mother of
the 24 weeker.  On the up side - at least my dh picked up on it and said
"hey, she looks just like the [insert unnamed product here] rep that
interrupted our doctor and our visit at the pediatricians office when
[our daughter] was 4 days old."

Katherine Shealy, MPH, IBCLC (!!!)

Atlanta, GA

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