>> An endocrine mechanism which has allowed a woman to conceive and give
birth does not at that stage fail to provide for lactation. <<

I no longer believe this, because I am seeing with my own eyes women with
hormonal problems conceive with help or spontaneously but then go on to have
primary supply failure. It is a disturbing thing to realize that this is not
happening among other mammals. Is it merely that we have learned to thwart
natural selection? I don't know, but I am suspicious that we have some
unidentified pathologies that are increasing the rate of hormonal imbalances
and thus also increasing the rate of lactation failure.

There has been a dramatic increase in the rate of infertility over the past
few decades-- what held true for humanity in the past no longer always holds
true today.

Lisa Marasco IBCLC

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