Best evidence-based BF support site I ever found, offered as another source for biology-based, evidence-supported information for those who want it: www.kellymom.com

Look, if someone comes to me and says, I really want to nurse but I’m afraid I don’t make enough milk, I’ll support and help and go all out. But if someone says, oh, I didn’t have enough milk so I stopped, I will just nod my head. I definitely don’t believe that half the women I know are in the tiny percentage of…

A good LC can make a huge difference in a new mom’s life. Huge.

My son was in NICU for a week after he was born, and they wanted him on high calorie formula from a bottle and wouldn’t let me breastfeed him (said it took too much energy and he’d be worn out.) I pumped but could barely get half an ounce at a time. As soon as I got him out of there I started trying to breast feed,…

and this “There are two reasons that’s sad: one is that we (as human beings) aren’t good at telling whether we’re making enough milk or not; and the other is that if you do have a low milk supply, it’s usually fixable, as long as you catch it early.” NOT because “oh, if you don’t breastfeed you’re subpar”...but…

I wish, too, that women would understand there is a WORLD of difference between FEELING judged and being talked to judgmentally. Emotions are very high about the feeding choices, people can be very unkind, but all of that doesn’t change what biologically is true. Supply issues are common because information is lousy…

again, OR if you had had accurate supply information easily available to you, so you could have relaxed and not been anxious about it....wouldn’t that have been awesome??

OR get good advice and trace the problem, before turning at once to a bottle. If you’re tracking output, you know early that there is a problem and can work to correct it without turning immediately to formula, and if formula is necessary as a supplement, you can get information about ways to do so without…

And we’re sure not talking marginal improvements, population statistically. Sure, there are the endless “but I/my child had formula and we are fine” but that isn’t population stats and doesn’t alter my views on this. Over the larger population, breastmilk is substantially, significantly, a better source of nutrition…

Our son was born with a severe birth defect and whisked off to the NICU immediately after birth. My wife’s first night nurse after birth was horrendous (for other reasons than just this) and didn’t once mention anything about trying to pump in the first 12 hours so she started to get engorged. A lactation nurse came…

Thanks for sharing your perspective. That’s a tough situation, and guilt on top of all the other stress isn’t going to help moms like you who are doing the best they can.

My baby girl turns 2 tomorrow and I remember it like it was yesterday trying to encourage my wife to breastfeed. She had a few conditions that were known to limit breastmilk production and she developed a hematoma after a C-section and it was hard for her to hold the baby on her stomach. So what started as a nice flow…

x2 on the “I don’t believe people who say they didn’t make enough milk” with caveat that “unless they have a compelling reason this is true” because in RARE RARE situations, there are in fact physical reasons that a woman wouldn’t be able to produce enough. The thing is...that 2-5% seems to be co-opted by the 50-70%…