On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:43:35 EDT, Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
>
>In a message dated 5/20/2005 7:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>I found one  post from 1995 in the archives talking about a Birth article
>that looked at  anemia and mothers with insufficient milk  syndrome.
>
>
>
>Dear Friends:
>    This is the Henley article that discovered that 20%  of the sample of
>600+ postpartum women were anemic.
>    Anemia did not cause low milk supply.
>    Anemia made a tired mom, who could also  have poor problem solving
>ability. The decisions she made about her  baby who wanted to feed very
often, as
>any normal newborn does, led to a  lowered supply.
>    I don't know of any link between pernicious anemia  (a chronic disease
as
>gastric juices lack an intrinsic factor so B-12 isn't  absorbed) and milk
>supply.
>   warmly,
>
>Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
>Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
>Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
>Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative


I did a search on pernicious anemia and came up with a link between
pernicious anemia and low thyroid.
<http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00060440.html>
<http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2002/facts.php>.
It could be that the low thyroid is causing the low supply and the anemia
is blamed.
-Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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