Stephanie Ehlert, AAHCC wrote:
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> My question is can birth trauma really effect milk suppily?

Well it makes sense to me.
  Also interesting that she was born similarily herself.
  One cool book Women's Bodies Womens Wisdom by Christiane Northrup,
MD.pages 78 and 79 (emotional issues associated with breasts and
reproductive area) also chapter 12 esp. pages 386 to 388 "women labor as
they live".
  I've never yet suggested something like this directly to a mom even
though I talk about it all the time here.  Of course we read the most
unexplainable situations here too.  Not only do we have to maintain our
integrity as bf helpers (such a fragile reputation) but we want to give
the mom the encouragement she needs to keep trying.  So it is important
to sense if this is the kind of info that will give this mom hope or
will she tell everyone in town you and whoever you associate with are
wacky.  It is imperative to take the mom from where she is coming from
at a pace she can handle.
  Every time I go through something traumatizing I learn something new
and wonderful.  Like right now I am just getting over the worst flu I
ever had in my life and I decided to stay open to why I needed to let
myself be so sick and sure enough I have applied some really cool things
from some books I was reading that I had disinterestedly skimmed over
before (as well as some other insights).
  Perhaps it would broaden a moms spectrum of possible solutions if we
suggest that her bf troubles could also be here to teach her something.

-Joyce Mitchell