Susan wrote:

<< The literature seems to indicate that painful letdown resolves within
 six weeks...so she may just need to hang in there. My personal
 experience tells me this is not always the case and, sometimes this kind
 of oversupply has to be dealt with more aggressively.  >>

Because I am an informal, lay, bf advisor (hello Anna!), the most frequent
question I answer is:  "Is it supposed to hurt like this?"

The "approved" answer to this question is often presented as, "No, bf should
never hurt."    But I think that this kind of painful letdown is not so rare
-- heaven knows I had it with both kids for at least 6 weeks, and other
longer-term bfers I know have said the same, enough so that I did not believe
that I was a fluke.

So my question for the many of your with vastly more mom/baby experience than
I have, is, what questions exactly do you ask, in an initial interview, to
elicit information that will tell you why it "hurts like this"?  Or do you
just not know until you want them feed?

Thanks for helping me grown in wisdom --

Elisheva Urbas
nyc

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