I agree strongly with Pat and Virginia. These anecdotal stories have been used for decades to discourage women from breastfeeding. 

In an average course of say, one to three (or more) years of breastfeeding, a case of a mother *never* becoming angry is impossible. People have feelings and at times they are negative.

If anger, (or "guilt" or sadness) caused "toxins" in the milk, I think most of us doubt the human race would have survived and thrived. Media (including "research studies") in many totalitarian governments are controlled by the government. If AIM sales helps the government (or the burgeoning until recently untapped foreign based AIM market in recently opened China) then it is inevitable that "studies" connecting breastfeeding with poor outcomes will happen. 

I think most of us here can assure you and the mothers you work with that even negative emotions (and at times even anger isn't negative) does not harm the milk at all.

Mary Jozwiak, IBCLC 

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