Hi Lara,
I think that we do not know how many women are physically incapable of
making enough milk. The 5% figure is quoted often but repetition does not
make it more substantative. There are plenty of papers written on perceived
insufficient milk syndrome and a look reveals that as you would expect there
are many factors that can lead to a woman not having enough milk and that it
is often difficult to acertain just what the reasons are. However, having
spent some time in the last week talking to a new mum who really appears to
have a physiological problem that prevents her making beyond drops I wish
that there was a medical speciality responsible for this organ who could
help to work out what the problem was.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

> 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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