>>Montagu's wonderful, two-inch thick book called TOUCHING (which was in our
Group library at a LLL meeting)  in which he mentioned that it seemed
peculiar to Western civil. that mothers would have too much milk.  He didn't
attribute to diet but to society & the lack of confidence in bfg (we
overcompensate for our lack by producing too much.)<<

To take this idea a little further: Maybe Montague was on to something,
but didn't have the whole picture yet. Maybe oversupply is due in some
instances to our "standardized" method of breastfeeding: so many minutes
on this side, so many on that side, back and forth. Some moms take this
so seriously and may be overstimulating their supplies by constant
switching. What do you think?

-Lisa

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Lisa Marasco, BA, LLLL, IBCLC
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