it’s really interesting to me that so manymothers today still think they don’t make enough milk for their babies, when in factwe have the evidence to support the idea that very few of us cannot make enough milk forour babies, probably only 5%; so why do mothers feel this way? what evidence shows is thatthe leading cause of breast feeding failure is the belief that we don’t have enoughmilk in that’s contributed to by not having education that tells us not only how milkis made but how to get milk started and how to maintain a good supply. we have to havenormal anatomy in physiology in order to have a good milk supply, but the motor that reallydrives milk supply is the removal of milk. so, if you are not nursing enough, if youare supplementing and not taking milk out
of your breast, you're not going to have amilk supply. so mothers kind of miss that piece, and it’s very important to have aclass before you have a baby to know who your helpers are and where to go to ask your questionsbefore your baby is ever born. but the second thing that i think that’s really contributingis that people in our culture do not know what babies are really like. and particularlythe difference between a formula fed baby and a breastfed baby, and there is information,quite new, that’s really helpful and that is that the variation on how often a babywill feed and how much they take it the breast is incredibly wide. babies will vary theirfeed once milk is well established five or six times a day to thirteen times a day. andwhat dictates that is how much storage capacity
a particular mother has, how much stomachcapacity the baby has, and how fast that little baby's stomach empties. and it can empty inas much as 40 minutes, 48 minutes, maybe 90 minutes, but as little as 40 minutes. so,moms needs to know those kinds of things instead of comparing themselves to each other allthe time. the third thing, that i think is so important is so many moms thinks that breastfeedingis suppose to be easy and natural. and it really isn’t. it’s a learned skill formany people, and you need to know where your help is and access it until you get it overthe hump.
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