Friends,
I found that this to be true in my practice more where obese women
stopped breastfeeding than the run of mill non-obese. But what I found
was these women did not produce   sufficient amount milk. My thinking
was always that the weight of the fat on the mammary ducts caused an
almost tight binder or crushing effect the in the breast secretory cells
and thus causing the breast to go into a pseudo weaning mode.
Just my opinion.
Jan Aken RN IBCLC


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Subject: Obese Women and Breastfeeding

I came across this article this afternoon:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July04/obesemoms.breastfeed.ssl.htm
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Ellen Penchuk, IBCLC, RLC

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