Hello wise ones,

This has got me stumped, thus I'm appealing to anyone who has had experience with such a mother. I spoke briefly today with a mother with mastitis (baby 5 weeks, growth very good) who told me that she has to use synthetic oxytocin to be able to breastfeed. The reason being that she does not experience a MER otherwise. I haven't seen the baby drink or had chance to gather much info but this mother also told me how she had synthetic oxytocin (pitocin) for the duration of a long, drawn out heavy labour as her body did not produce oxytocin naturally. And now it gets even more intriguing - her mother and sister had the same sort of problematic / pitocin augmented labours and were also not able to breastfeed because they did not exhibit MER's. 

I've never heard of this - is there a condition (genetically inherited?) that means that a woman does / cannot produce any oxytocin???

I do not have the full history as yet, but would like to appeal to anyone in the know on this - especially the midwives among you??


groetjes

Sara Bernard (patiently waiting.....)
The Netherlands

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