On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:43:35 EDT, Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >In a message dated 5/20/2005 7:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > >I found one post from 1995 in the archives talking about a Birth article >that looked at anemia and mothers with insufficient milk syndrome. > > > >Dear Friends: > This is the Henley article that discovered that 20% of the sample of >600+ postpartum women were anemic. > Anemia did not cause low milk supply. > Anemia made a tired mom, who could also have poor problem solving >ability. The decisions she made about her baby who wanted to feed very often, as >any normal newborn does, led to a lowered supply. > I don't know of any link between pernicious anemia (a chronic disease as >gastric juices lack an intrinsic factor so B-12 isn't absorbed) and milk >supply. > warmly, > >Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE >Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University >Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation >Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative I did a search on pernicious anemia and came up with a link between pernicious anemia and low thyroid. <http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00060440.html> <http://www.aace.com/pub/tam2002/facts.php>. It could be that the low thyroid is causing the low supply and the anemia is blamed. -Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html