I responded a few days ago on this thread, and since then I've been
thinking about it it. Someone asked if there was a relation between low
milk supply and AN/BN. I would like to share some thougths I have about
this.

Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa are types of addictions: food addictions.
It is very difficult to get rid of this addiction. An alcohol or drug
addicted person can get rid of the addiction by staying away of alcohol
or drugs, but for as food addicted person it isn't possible to recover
by such a rigorous appraoch. Even people who are recovered from it,
often have a special relation with food for the rest of their life.

Sometimes AN/BN people will also show typical 'addiction' behaviour:
denial, not telling the truth, etc.

Based on this I think that when a woman comes to a LC with a problem of
insufficient milk, and reports that she has a history of AN/BN, that she
she migth still have a food problem. On the LLLI conference this summer,
there was a lecture about women's nutrition, and the lecturer (I forgot
her name) stated that a diet under 1500-1700 calories often leads to
problems with milk supply. So, maybe the women who complaints about milk
supply may still have an inadequate diet. If one suspect this is the
problem, one migth refer her to a professional in treating AN/BN since
it is a serieus very problem, that needs help.

Another thing that comes to mind is that the low milk supply migth be
caused by rigid schedules. (Former) AN/BN people often have problems
with control, control over their bodies, control over food, etc. They
might heavily rely on schedules, for their own *and* for their
children's food intake, bc they don't trust their own feelings about
food. Talking about this, that the baby (still) has a natural instinct
about food, that s/he knows instinctively how much food they need, migth
help theese women to be more flexible about their nursing schedule.

hope this helps,
--
Annelies Bon               http://www.flnet.nl/~0bon01/bfbronnen.html
bf counsellor in training of the Dutch bf org "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"