On 10/12/2003, at 6:36, Julia R. Barrett wrote:

>> Wolf, Jackie" <[log in to unmask]> posted:
>> I know true milk insufficiency is extremely
>> rare [snip]
> I can only think of one off-hand, and that's by Marianne R. Neifert;
> "Prevention of Breastfeeding Tragedies," Pediatric Clinics of North
> America
> 48(2): 273-97, April 2001. It doesn't go into a lot of detail about the
> numbers, but cites a study in which 15% of primips had insufficient
> lactation at 2-3 weeks postpartum. Of these women, insufficiency was
> secondary to problems such as poor latch and inappropriate scheduling
> in
> two-thirds. In one-third of the cases, there was a primary problem
> such as
> maternal illness or previous breast damage (e.g., through surgery).

In other words, 5% of the population had genuine low milk supply that
wouldn't necessarily be prevented with good postpartum support and
information? That's "very common" in  my language, not "extremely
rare". There is no way the medical profession would accept organ
failure statistics like that in a young healthy population where any
other organ of the body is concerned. Why is it just accepted that 5%
of women will suffer lactation failure?

</rhetorical question mode>

Lara

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