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Darillyn Starr <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:38:48 -0700
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I think there are many reasons that mothers in traditional cultures, in
which breastfeeding has remained the norm, tend to do so much better than
mothers in industrialized, bottlefeeding cultures, at inducing lactation.
One specific one is certainly the fact that the babies usually know how to
nurse effectively.  In such cultures, babies are unlikely to have had
bottles before their adoptive mothers get them.  In order to have survived
for more than a short time, a baby who did not come to his adoptive mother
soon after birth would have to have been breastfed by someone, somewhere
along the line.

The vast majority of babies who are adopted by mothers in the industrialized
world have had bottles for some period of time before their adoptive mothers
have a chance to nurse them.  Of course, some still nurse well, but others
do not, and that definitely has an effect on the ease with which the
adoptive mother produces milk, especially when her baby's suckling is the
primary method of stimulating milk production (as opposed to meds, pumping,
etc).  This is one reason that many adoptive moms who nurse multiple adopted
children see a significant variation in their milk production, from child to
child.

Aloha,
Darillyn

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