On Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:48 PM, Jan Barger wrote:
>>>In a message dated 6/20/2006 12:34:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Jan, in my area, we may have more women who are overloaded with IVs during
labor and are edematous for weeks postnatally. Our induction/augmentation
rate is high; our epidural rate is over 95%. That could partially explain
the high oversupply issue for the women who deliver in
Westchester/Putnam/Rockland County.
Lee, refresh my physiology here -- why are you seeing more oversupply with
the abnormal birthing experience? Because they are pumping to get milk in
-- hence over producing? Or is it something else?<<<
Lee now writing: Jan, I will be very honest, I have more questions than
answers. One reason for the overproduction may be that the edematous moms
get off to a very bad start with breastfeeding and go on to pump a lot
before they seek LC help, especially if the baby is guzzling down 3 or 4 oz
at a time from the bottle. OTOH, and this is purely anecdotal, in my area
it SEEMS to be related to edema (caused by lots of pitocin, IVs,
epidurals?). Maybe in the future, we will have studies/research regarding
if overhydration can lead to a superabundant milk supply; I know that at the
present many believe that the opposite is true. Do you have any thoughts on
that? Do any other Lactnetters? I only have questions and suppositions!
BTW, oversupply in my area is something that I have noticed more of in the
past few years only. I don't know why that change is the present situation.
Lee Galasso, MS, IBCLC, RLC
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