Dear all:

I checked with one of my colleagues on this and she had the same impression
so I don't feel so nuts.  So I hope you don't mind my sharing this bit of
trivia I have been pondering.

I just saw a mom who had a lithograph of Marilyn Monroe topless. It was
distracting because my impression of her breasts is so at deviance with that
of the culture that I live in.  Anytime I happened to glance at that
lithograph I was mentally trying to measure the space between her breasts.
I think she had insufficient glandular tissue.  I talked to my colleague who
saw a copy of this same picture years before she became a lactation
consultant and she knew exactly what I meant.  She starting thinking about
the shape of Marilyn's breasts and reached the same conclusion.  We both
have seen some of the classic tubular breasts and many more of the marginal
cases of insufficient tissue and had our suspicions confirmed by the
breastfeeding medicine specialist so I don't think we're imagining this.

Who would have thought that the breasts that so enchanted so many men could
be a source of speculation about their real functionality by a couple of
lactation consultants?

Best, Susan E. Burger, MHS, PhD, IBCLC

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