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Date: | Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:54:08 EST |
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Katie notes:
<< I too experienced a very brief feeling of
melancholy when my first breastfed baby would stimulate letdown. I tried
to describe it to several people and the closest thing I could compare
to the feeling is intense homesickness. It was never a real problem for
me and it faded after a few months. I looked for references to this
symptom in the medical literature and never found anything.
Anecdotally, several women I know who experienced severe, clinically
diagnosed PPD have told me that they felt worse when breastfeeding. >>
I had one mother who told me she felt as though she had fallen into a "black
hole" when she breastfed. It would last the entire feeding, and then she
would be fine. She called me at about three months -- i wondered if it wa her
reaction to increased levels of prolactin, and when those leveled off at about
4 months, she would feel better. And she did.
Jan
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