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Joyce Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:27:59 -0600
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> I see so much over active let down response that I can't believe
> it.  When someone calls saying their milk disappeared with there
> last baby I automatically ask, among the usual repertoire of questions, if the baby would choke and gulp
> when the milk let down.  I first realized how big a deal this is when I was
> helping a mom who wasn't able to nurse her first child as long
> as she had wanted to and the second one was beginning to refuse
> to nurse and her milk supply felt very low.  After we finally
> figured out that she had overactive letdown she proceeded to
> apply the tactics suggested for the older baby in LLLs LC series
> guide and she was thrilled with the results.  The interesting thing about it
> was that she has a brother who is a doctor in Taiwan (I think)
> and she is that nationality herself.  She told me that he said,
> "All women lose there milk after 6 months"(or so I should have
> wrote this part down).  She wondered after the solution to her
> problem if this wasn't why her brother sees this.  She even
> wondered if it might be inherent in women of her nationality
> especially.  Before my experience with her I only saw overactive
> letdown from the standpoint of the moms comfort, that the baby
> wouldn't be affected that much except for comfort too.  It's
> amazing how it effects the babies sucking, the milk supply,
> introduction of supplements, and age of weaning.  That LC series
> guide has become a regular part of our LLL lending library
> because invariably someone  needs to check it out every month.
> I prefer to have the mom read it herself since the symptoms are
> so easily misinterpreted and the solution so "complex", especially
> for the older baby.
> Why do American women complain more of undersupply and women in
> other countries complain more of oversupply? Why do women in
> Utah need more prozac than women in other states?  Why doen't
> the perineums of American women stretch as well as those in
> other countries?
>
>  Maybe American women never have enough of anything.
>
>          Maybe it's all in the interpretation.
>
> -Joyce

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