I feel almost giddy at the mention of Hispanic moms not once but TWICE in
the same email-reading session LOL.
I am the first to admit that this problem - what we sometimes, with tongue
in cheek, call the "no se llena story" - can be a VERY intractable problem
to un-teach at times. It is, some days, the very bane of my existence as an
L.C. (FYI, "no se llena" is spanish for "he's never full". The double-l is
pronounced as a Y) Some women simply will not be convinced that their
breasts work, no matter how many diapers the baby is wetting, or how many
bowel movements he's having, or how much weight he's gaining, etc.
I haven't found a magic-bullet way to undo this problem in my clients.
Mostly it's just persistent, active listening. Figuring out why SHE thinks
she's not making enough, teaching her about THOSE things.
Sometimes what helps my clients is for me to explain that it is the ACT of
nursing that MAKES milk, and that the "emptier" the breast is at one point,
the more milk it will make, and all the faster, the next time around. (what
the heck - she thinks her breast is empty? Point out why that may be a GOOD
thing LOL!) The old LLL adage "today's nursing makes tomorrow's milk" makes
a lot of sense to some of my clients. Nurse 10 times today, but 4 times
tomorrow, and the following day you'll make LESS milk, I tell them. Nurse 4
times today and 10 times TOMORROW, and the following day you'll make MORE
milk. That kind of explanation seems to help some.......
sigh
Regina Roig Lane, BS IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC...happy to see the
biggest problem in her practice being addressed here on Lactnet!
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Curless [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: combining breast/bottles
Hi Mary Kay: Yes I am very frustrated with this problem. Our Hispanic
population keeps saying no milk: I have them express colostrum manually
trying to show milk. I also see it among too many other moms too. Our
staff try to reinforce there is milk but this usually does not help.
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