Jessica, you should try the archives for this.  A year or maybe a year and a
half ago there was a long exchange about this.

I remember it because I participated in it a bit -- I myself was always
extremely sleeping at and for a while after let-down, and that meant that
during parts of the day when my kids cluster fed I was a zombie!   There were
several others on the list who reported having had this experience, also, and
some guesswork that it may be connected to the "relaxation" of prolactin,
just as some of us also get weepy around let down.

You will also find plenty of posts by others, including at least one of our
more distinguished list docs, who completely scoffed at this, assured us we
were tired for other reasons, that we didn't know what we were feeling, etc.
 It infuriated me -- we were all lactation advocates, after all, reporting a
wide variety of personal experiences, and for anyone, including a doctor to
take the position that people don't know how they feel is as outrageous when
they are tired as it is when they are in pain, or afraid, or any other
similar feeling.   "Everybody is tired when their kids are small, it has
nothing to do with bf" just sounded too much like "Everybody's nipples hurt
when they bf, it has nothing to do with yeast."

In short, this seems to be something that a significant _minority_ of women
experience, and if a mom *thinks* she is feeling that, whether she is or not,
the answer needs to be supporting how great she is for bf, and suggesting how
much more energy it takes to make bottles, and suggesting ways to get more
rest ---- but WITHOUT telling her she doesn't know how she feels!

Cheers, ESU

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