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Kirsten Berggren <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:10:10 -0400
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I think it's important in these statistics to emphasize that we're 
talking about a percent of women who may not ever achieve a *full* milk 
supply. This is very different language than saying "not medically able 
to breastfeed". I would think there are only .0001% of women who are 
not medically able to breastfeed *at all*. But saying that "5% may 
require some supplementation", or "5% will not be able to be fully 
breastfed" leaves open the possibility of MOSTLY breastfeeding, with a 
little help from some supplements. I really push to get away from the 
"all or nothing" mentality.

We worked recently with a mom who was finally, after much work, able to 
get about a 95% full supply. It was very hard for this mom to accept 
supplementation, so knowing her situation is not all that unusual (5% 
is a relatively high frequency, really) would have been helpful to her. 
We let her down by over-emphasizing how rare it is not to have a full 
supply (when we were working to build hers), and not allowing earlier 
that there was a possibility she'd need ongoing supplementation. But at 
least she kept breastfeeding - many would have given up entirely, and 
she did a great job.

Anyway, just my opinion on the wording, but I think (thanks always to 
Dianne Wiessinger) we need to always watch how we phrase things.

Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC
www.workandpump.com

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