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"Kermaline J. Cotterman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:27:08 -0500
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I believe the lady was probably misinformed by some well meaning person,
perhaps even a health care provider, or she misinterpreted something she
was told. A history of childhood abuse of some kind may also play a part
in the scenario, providing a convenient "socially acceptable reason" to
fend off encouragement to breastfeed.

Now may be a teachable moment to inform her about the fact that
completion of the fifth physiological stage of reproduction actually
lowers the statistical risk of premenopausal breast cancer. Perhaps this
fact alone might open the door to future consideration of indirect
breastfeeding at least for a while, especially if she were to have a
premie.

At any rate, even mothers who do not breastfeed undergo involution of
many of the "leaves of their glandular tree" between pregnancies and
still "sprout new leaves" (develop new glandular tissue) in "springlike"
response to each new placenta, even if they don't plan to breastfeed. Or
as my CBE teaching mentor always put it "Nature prepares every mother to
breastfeed whether she plans to or not."

I have found that newly pregnant women will feel physical improvement for
24 hours each time they take a warm shower, let the water drizzle over
the breasts for a short while, and gently massage them for several
minutes in the same manner as for a monthly SBE.

Perhaps this will be acceptable to her at this stage, without feeling she
has been exposed to any real "sermon" on benefits of breastfeeding, since
it commonly falls within a "detecting-disease-oriented context" rather
than within a "preparing-to-breastfeed" context.

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, OH

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