Oh come on! There is no evidence that osteoporosis is caused by
breastfeeding. There are some women who develop premenopausal osteoporosis
for no obvious reason, many of them never ever having had kids or breastfed.
Indeed, osteoporosis may occur in teenagers. Cause unknown. This is another
example of blaming breastfeeding because I don't know what else to say.

Why would calcitonin dry up the milk? Sounds to me like the doctor is just
making things up.

A few months more or even a few weeks more of breastfeeding, if she is
worried, is not going to make any difference to her condition. Why "wean
immediately"?

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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