In a message dated 7/19/2005 4:51:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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Mom is  worried that the milk supply has gone so soon (at 4 months not 8 
months)  with this current baby.  She would like to breastfeed this baby 
until  1 year of age.  
There is no history of injury or surgery to the  breast or chest wall.

Any ideas as to what may be happening?  Any  suggestions to help this Mom
The only answer I can give you is incidental and based on my  own experience. 
 My left breast leaks milk, but has never been a "producer"  of milk.  When I 
pump, if I get 1/2 to 1 oz of milk from it, that is a good  session, in 
comparison to the 3 to 4 oz from the right breast.  This has  been true since my 
child has been born.  She always nurses first on the  Right, and if still hungry 
or if I am just tired and sore (she is teething and  gnaws the heck out of my 
nipples) I switch her to the left.  She is  perfectly satisfied from my 
right, but even as a small infant she rarely was  nursed from the left, because of 
the lack of milk.  She is healthy and  happy and perfectly nourished.  
 
Again I say look at the baby.  You say she is gaining  appropriate weight, 
and she seems happy.  Why are you trying to fix what  isn't broken.  Her body is 
for whatever reason compensating the fact  that her left side is less the 
"producer" than the right, and the baby isn't  suffering.  I do agree that she 
needs to get a mamogram to be safe,  but I really think all will be fine.  A lot 
of moms that attend the LLL  group I attend find that there is a "preferred 
breast" and that that breast  almost always produces more.
 
Renee Drake RN CLC 
 

I  make milk....What's YOUR superpower???


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