Sounds very unusual to me too unless ALL (which I would think would be very 
difficult to do) the ducts leading to the nipple were severed.
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Del Smith
Breastfeeding Counsellor
Australian Breastfeeding Association www.breastfeeding.asn.au


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Fogelmans" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:23 AM
Subject: no milk flow following lumpectomy


> Dear Friends,
> I spoke to a woman today who had a lumpectomy 8 years ago in her left 
> breast and has not been able to get a drop of milk out of it.  According 
> to the report she had at home, the doctor removed an intraductal 
> papilloma.  He removed 8 grams of tissue all together.  She gave birth to 
> her first baby a month ago.  From the beginning no one and no pump could 
> get even a drop out of her left breast.  When her milk came in she became 
> engorged and treated the breast with cold compresses.  The engorgement 
> passed and the mother has just been using the right side.
> Both a surgeon in the hospital where she gave birth and the surgeon who 
> did the lumpectomy said that her problems with her left breasts are 
> probably because of the it.  It doesn't make sense to me that this minor 
> operation caused this - does it make sense to anyone else?
> Thanks,
> Chayn, very tired in Israel
>
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