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Jo-Anne Elder <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:24:15 -0300
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> Months later, when =
> the topic came up again, she commented that, when she started to nurse, =
> she had to hurry and get her babies to the breast, or they would get =
> sprayed in the face.  The only thing I could see was that she had a =
> persistent over-active let-down, which had resulted in milk removal, =
> despite very poor latch.  Has anyone heard of any other case like this?
>
I'd love to see research on this -- and remember something about studies
that showed that this was sometimes what happened in newborns up to 3
mos., when in some cases the milk supply would drop. Lisa Marasco, was
that your research?
But it is certainly something I hear about often enough to suggest to
mothers with initial problems latching that their supply seems to be
compensating for the positioning during the adjustment period of
learning to latch, etc.
The other point is that what can look like lousy positioning might not
be ineffective. I used to joke with the IBCLC I was working with that my
youngest's "sloppy latch" (which resulted, we found, in optimal milk
transfer) might have something to do with nursing two sets of twins in
simultaneous cradle hold. I didn't have "lousy positioning" all the
time, just long enough to have resulted in anatomical traits conducive
to postural adjustment and a somewhat unconventional orobobular
reconfiguration :-)
Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, IBCLC


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