I think many women perceive insufficient milk because that may be Mother 
Nature's way of ensuring the mother will continue to mother and feed her 
baby.  I distinctly remember going thru a period in the early weeks with 
each of my 3 babies where I was convinced my babies weren't getting enough 
and that I was starving them to death.  Understandable with my first, but 
with my 2nd and 3rd, I had already been an LC for over 10 years!  I 
remember my oldest (who was 12 and 13 years old when her sisters were born) 
looking at me like I had lost my mind one day when I was sure the baby 
wasn't getting enough to eat.  She undressed the baby in front of me and 
started counting fat rolls on the baby's arms and legs and told me that the 
doctor would yell at me and tell me to put the baby on a diet because she 
was too fat!  Out of the mouths of babes!  I think this happens to some 
extent to every mother with every baby because I believe this is the 
influence of our hormones, forcing the mother to want to stick around and 
nuture her baby, which in turn, ensures the survival of the species.  I 
like to tell moms when they are doing skin-to-skin to put their heads down 
close to their babies' heads and listen.  "Do you hear your hormones 
talking to your baby's hormones?"  Some of the moms swear that they do!  
So, there may be a positive purpose to some of these maternal perceptions.


Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL   USA

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