Well, maybe me being a linguist and not native, nor fluent in English is a reason these new deffinitions are rubbing me the wrong way, but - how is lactation defined?
As far as my understanding goes, lactation is the process in which the breasts make milk and does not equal breastfeeding. So the mother is lactating and her breasts are lactationg too. What has this to do with by which method this milk is being
transfered to the infant? The breasts are still lactating even if the infant is getting milk via SNS - and the infant is on the breast, doing BREASTfeeding, and not lactating. So is this lactation or translactation happening in mother's breasts, if her baby is not breastfeeding?!
And what about relactation? If the mother is having milk, but it is not enough and the baby needs to have supplements, offered by a SNS, why should this be called relactation?!
I have not read the article and perhaps that's why the whole thing sounds mysterious to me, but I thought I might share what I am thinking and see if someone is maybe wondering the same.
Christina Yaneva
BF Peer Councellor
Bulgaria
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Sonya Myles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sonya Myles <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: What is translactation?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:22 PM
> From the latest JHL, in which there
> was an article on translactation, it is when you use a
> lactation aid at the breast with the mothers own milk.
> Relactation is described as using a lactation aid at the
> breast with ABM, and translactation is described as using a
> lactation aid at the breast with EBM. I hope this helps, I
> had not heard the term before either.
>
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