I have personally worked with three women who have been able to breastfeed without supplements after breast reduction surgery. One was kind of interesting - the mother decided to have the surgery while breastfeeding her first child. He was about three months old at the time of surgery. The surgeon told her she must wean first, but she kept putting it off and finally it was the day before the surgery and she was still nursing. Afterwards, the doctor told her that in fact it was helpful because he could easily see the milk ducts and tried not to damage any of them. He told her not to try to nurse the baby again because it might pull out the stitches and gave her medication to dry up her milk. She ignored that recommendation, too, and put the baby back to the breast within a few days and continued to breastfeed with no problems. She had two children after that and both nursed for long periods of time with no supplements. Another mother had breast reduction surgery at seventeen, married and had her first baby at 21, and had no problems producing plenty of milk. Didn't do anything in particular, just helped her get a good latch and nurse on cue. The third had needed to supplement while breastfeeding her first baby, but had a full milk supply for the second baby. Teresa Pitman Guelph, Ontario *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html