Perhaps this was a cross-post; this same topic is being discussed on another
list I am on.

There, Diane Wiessinger paraphrased (she thought) Jan Barger on the vexsome
notion of no-BF-while-pregnant.  The simple and sensible explanation was a
lightbulb moment for me.  Diane wrote:

"I love Jan Barger's (I think) explanation: that the pregnant uterus doesn't
have many oxytocin receptors and so can't "hear" much oxytocin until the
hours just before labor starts, when oxytocin receptor numbers skyrocket.
If a uterus were sensitive to oxytocin mid-pregnancy, that's how we'd do
abortions! Just hook women up to pitocin and start premature labor. We don't
do it because, even with those massive doses, it *doesn't work*. Not until
just before labor was going to start anyway.  A uterus is fiercely
protective of its contents, until it does a 180 and works to expel what it
worked so hard to contain. It takes more than a toddler (unless the timing
is right) to make that 180 happen."

--
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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