Still feeding my 2 yr old after the first 9 months of supplementing with SNS due to
chronic low supply, posterior tongue tie revised at 7 weeks.
After suffering through
chronic low supply with my first baby, I ended up with oversupply this time around.
After ruling out all other possible issues (attachment, positioning, malabsorption), and in discussion with our midwife and lactation consultants, it was identified that I likely have a condition called «Insufficient Glandular Tissue» resulting in
chronic low supply.
A thorough thyroid screening is a must for a mom with
chronic low supply that is unresponsive to other treatments.
NOT for a woman who true,
chronic low supply.
If you have true,
chronic low supply then cookies will do NOTHING to increase it!
For women who have
chronic low supply, hearing the words, «Have you tried lactation cookies?»
I was bf» ing around the clock, but I have
chronic low supply and always had to top off with formula.
I am an admin of a support group for
chronic low supply moms.
Articles like this, though well intended, can be detrimental to
chronic low supply moms, those whom you describe as»... [the] extremely small number of women [who] produce an insufficient amount of breast milk.»
Not exact matches
They are typically recommended for mothers and babies with medical problems such as premature baby or baby is not able to breastfeed well and build and maintain a good
supply, or mom is struggling with
chronic breastfeeding issues, perhaps her
supply is
low or the personal use pumps cause her pain.
The most commonly recognized causes of
chronic low milk
supply are IGT — in which it is believed that the milk - producing structures in the breast have failed to develop properly — and breast surgery, in which the ducts, or tubes, that carry milk to the nipple may be severed.
It's a measure of how little attention
chronic, primary or «true»
low milk
supply has received, that no one knows for sure how many women are affected.
Neifert attributes most of the
low supply to problems such as sore nipples and infant feeding difficulties, but she says 4 percent of the 319 women appeared to have
chronic low milk
supply.
So the only way for a woman with risk factors to really know if she has
chronic low milk
supply is to try breast - feeding with proper technique and pumping, and see if it works.
There are some good lactation consultants, according to Krystal Revai, a fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, but if a woman has
chronic low milk
supply, she should seek the help of an ABM physician, a doctor with breast - feeding expertise.
Although many women suffer from
chronic low milk
supply, they only do so for a limited amount of time, Welt says.
Her post My Struggle with
Chronic Low Milk
Supply obviously struck a chord with me as evident by my previous post.
When a mother experiences a
chronic low milk
supply with one of her babies, she may wonder what she could do the next time around to have a greater milk
supply.
I also found the IGT and
Chronic Low Milk
Supply support group on facebook, that resource has been the most helpful of all; I wouldn't have made it past the first week after being told that I have IGT without that support group.
A team of environmental scientists hired by New York City in 2009 to evaluate fracking's environmental impact concluded that the process could be «catastrophic» to the city's water
supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «
chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.»
Often
chronic low milk
supply can be tied to other anatomical issues like tongue or lip ties in babies or hormonal imbalance or insufficient glandular tissue in mom.
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