In my case, several nurses noted I had classic physiological markers
for insufficient glandular tissue plus a history of infertility, but specifically noted that they chose not to tell me.
Not exact matches
This article explores some of the possible reasons
for that, including polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), diabetes and pre-diabetes, and mammary hypoplasia (
insufficient glandular tissue).
I had been trying to breastfeed her and a series of events (my milk not coming in, jaundice,
insufficient glandular tissue) and some really poor medical advice (just keep nursing, it's normal
for a newborn to sleep that much) resulted in her losing 20 percent of her birth weight.
However, goat's rue has more recently being recognized among IGT mothers (
insufficient glandular tissue)
for stimulating mammary growth.
Medical conditions such as
insufficient glandular tissue (tubular breasts); a history of breast surgery; decreased breast stimulation and / or lack of emptying of the breast in the early postpartum days; a NICU admission
for your baby; or even tongue - tie can cause a reduction in your milk supply.
said Retter, who had read online about
insufficient glandular tissue, a breast condition strongly associated with the inability to produce enough milk
for a baby.
She told me her story — she'd had breast reduction surgery, which left her with a medical diagnosis of
Insufficient Glandular Tissue (IGT
for short).
For example, tongue ties,
insufficient glandular tissue, and NICU stays that can all cause undersupply.
While a large percentage of mothers with IGT felt like their breasts were «different» or «something was wrong» during adolescence, it is usually not until pregnancy, when «the booby fairy doesn't arrive» and her breasts change little or not at all, or after she has given birth, when she does not produce enough milk
for her baby, that a mother knows she has
insufficient glandular tissue.
Called tubular (or tuberous) breast deformity in the plastic surgery literature, hypoplasia of the mammary gland (also called
insufficient glandular tissue or IGT) was previously thought to be a simple issue of cosmetics — corrections addressed the appearance of a woman's breasts, with little regard
for their function.
If you are a mother with a smaller milk storage capacity (this isn't necessarily related to the size of your breasts) or if you have a medical condition such as PCOS, Diabetes,
Insufficient Glandular Tissue or Thyroid conditions that may make your milk supply more fragile, night feeds may need to continue
for many months
for you to maintain your milk supply and
for your baby to thrive.
While a large percentage of mothers with IGT felt like their breasts were «different» or «something was wrong» during adolescence, it is usually not until pregnancy, when her breasts change little or not at all, or after she has given birth, when she does not produce enough milk
for her baby, that a mother knows she has
insufficient glandular tissue.
The only situation in which a breastfeeder can not make enough milk
for their child despite everything else working is when they have a rare condition called IGT (
Insufficient Glandular Tissue).
I'm still trying to build up a supply
for our twenty - day - old, but because of diagnosed
insufficient glandular tissue, I can only produce about eight ounces a day when he needs closer to sixteen ounces, and he's only getting hungrier.
Yeah, although there is raw milk and you know if you drink it from a cow that you actually you know well grass feed and he has like safe things but yeah I mean that's one of the reasons they pasteurize the milk as you have to kill the bacteria and we just had an episode a couple weeks ago about women with
insufficient glandular tissue and one of them women there; her baby has been on her milk and donor milks sinces the beginning and she's so thankful
for these moms that she's met through these kind of informal milk sharing pages and things like that, as well as friends, I know a lot of them work through friends but her baby is gosh, I think he is now 15 or 17 months old.