Do you wonder what your 55 year old HCP learned about lactation?  A medical
text shown to me by an acquaintance reveals:

"The rate of lactation in a mother subjected to optimal suckling usually
increases for the first few months after parturition and thereafter
decreases, so that at the end of seven months very little lactation remains."

Wow! We'd better get those babies onto something else before that
disappearance of breast milk happens at 7 months. I wonder what Alison was
living on between that time and 11 months when she began solids--and little
of it then.

But, of course, breastfeeding education since med school was generously
supplied by the makers of abm.

I believe that med students graduating today are getting a better picture,
but basic, early lessons die hard; and those journals are much more
interested in publishing more interesting, challenging stuff.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC, who gets to present a session this weekend on YEAST.
WHEE!
Milwaukee
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