> There is no reason that long term supplementation at the breast can't =
> work just as well for a bio mom as for an adoptive mom.  The benefits of =
> nurturing at the breast need, and deserve, to be stressed.  In these =
> days of such common use of breast pumps, I think the nurturing benefits =
> kind of get lost sometimes.  Also, the benefit of any amount of breast =
> milk needs to be stressed, especially if there is a supply issue and the =
> mother is not able to pump enough milk to use in the supplementer. =20
>

Once when I was at Dr. Jack (Newman's) clinic, he was working with a mother
who was supplementing her baby at the breast and trying to increase her milk
supply. There was another doctor there as well, who was spending a few days
at the clinic learning, and she asked "At what point, if her milk supply
doesn't go up, should the mother just give up on breastfeeding and go to the
bottle?" Jack looked at her as though the question didn't make any sense at
all and said "Why would she ever stop? There are benefits to getting even a
small amount of breastmilk and no reason at all why she can't continue
supplementing as long as the baby needs it. Why would you give up all the
good things just because you don't have a full milk supply?"

After he left the room to see another mother, the doctor sat and talked with
me for a while. She said she felt like a lightbulb had just gone on inside
her brain - she'd never looked at it that way before!

Teresa Pitman
Guelph, Ontario

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