Re: Breast Milk *Edit* Boob Job!

Molly,

Yes this can affect her supply especially if her nipples were moved and the ducts were cut. Please suggest that she read "Defining Your Own Success" and that she contact LLL. While they stay out of it, she may find a donor mother through the network of women. If that is not an option, she can supplement with formula. There is a contraption called a Lactaid which mother can tape to the breast to keep her own breast stimulated. Whatever little bits that baby can get are still a gift and babies love to be close to mamma where they can hear her heartbeat and smell her.

I sure wish that women were better educated about what their bodies were designed to do and about how important breastfeeding is. If women were being given the proper information regarding both, perhaps we would not see this happen. It breaks my heart to see a mother that wants to breastfeed and can't especially when there are so many who could and don't. Why don't these doctors try to encourage these surgeries for after babies? (I could go on a rant about why!) Most young women are not thinking about breastfeeding when they have these reductions and because our culture places so little value on breastfeeding, they do not understand how important it really is. We, as women, must make sure that young women know how important it is.

Please encourage her not to give up with the little bit she has. I have a close friend who has never given birth and induced lactation and breastfed an adopted baby. She did supplement donor breastmilk and homemade formula. But her baby was exclusively breastfed for almost 5 months. Like she says, she doesn't buy this bit about "not being able". We have all made decisions we would go back and change because we didn't have the information needed to do any better.

I wish you would have had more support and information when you were with your preemie who likely had trouble organizing movements. And I am sorry your LC was an old crone. Every drop of milk you gave your child was a gift.

Cheers.

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