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Karen Gromada <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:08:48 -0400
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Hi Julie ~

A few years ago a mom expecting twins came to our LLL Multiples group. She
was concerned about BF twins because she had one hyoplastic breast. After
their birth, she pumped both breasts for her late preterm twins initially,
giving the hypoplastic breast several weeks of pumping. Finally she stopped
pumping that breast since there with no increase in the drops she obtained
from it. Both babies transitioned to her functioning breast -- production
went up more when each got good at BF -- and each probably got about 75% of
their nutrition from that one functioning breast. She said she didn't think
she'd have had to supplement if she'd had one baby and, few years later, she
indeed went on to fully breastfeed a singleton from the one breast.

She inspired many of the other MOT at our meeting and they asked whether it
bothered her to be rather lopsided, and she said, "No, I always have a baby
in my arms so I just hold the baby on the same hip as that breast
(hypoplastic one). No one ever seems to notice! And I know I won't always be
this lopsided!"

Of course, this MOT knew why her one breast didn't work and she gave it
many, many weeks of pumping to see what it might do. Who knows why the one
breast isn't (yet?) working for the mom you're seeing. (I had one mom with a
similar issue who later told me she'd been sexually abused as a child and
the abusive actions had included one breast -- the one that didn't make
milk.) As mothers of multiples know, our breasts can do far more than they
usually have to with the typical single-birth-child.

I hope this mom eventually gains confidence in the breast that is making
milk. In all likelihood it can do the job (and truly already is) without the
help of the other. Sometimes there simply isn't an answer (or science has
not yet figured it out)...

-- 
Karen Gromada
www.karengromada.com/

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