Dec 13

“…You Make Milk Like A Teenager!”

Wow, how old are you? You make milk like a teenager!” -Lactation Consultant to mother with one day old son, during a lactation visit, after pinching her nipples to “milk” her.

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Jennifer B. had this to say, Dec 13, 2009 @ 8:41 pm (Quote)

And how exactly does a teenager make milk?

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Tanya had this to say, Dec 14, 2009 @ 5:06 am (Quote)

Well I did make a ton of milk as a teenage mom but I’m not sure that was due to my age lol What a moron that LC is!

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Kat had this to say, Dec 14, 2009 @ 10:17 am (Quote)

Apparently the theory is that your prolactin level drop as you age. However, my sister’s mother-in-law has breastfed all her kids, and apparently even though she’s over 40 and a grandma (gasp!) her prolactin levels are fine.

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Jennifer B. Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm Jennifer B.(Quote)

Ah, I guess that makes sense… I didn’t have my first till I was 25, so I guess I never got to find out for myself…

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Lindsey had this to say, Dec 14, 2009 @ 11:38 am (Quote)

I’ve never heard this phrase…but I don’t like it.

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Kathy had this to say, Dec 14, 2009 @ 5:33 pm (Quote)

Well, then, I’m glad I waited until I was 27 to have my first child, because I have over-supply issues as it is — I can only imagine how much I might have made if I had had children in my teens! Enough for full-term quads or quints?!?

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Andy Reply:
December 26th, 2009 at 11:12 am Andy(Quote)

You could have drowned…

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Gem Reply:
February 9th, 2010 at 7:01 am Gem(Quote)

Me too Kathy, I still had OAL with my 4th child at age 40, glad I didn’t start having kids til 30, I might have drowned my first babies!

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Andy (UK Midwife) had this to say, Dec 23, 2009 @ 1:11 pm (Quote)

Shouldn’t somebody who knows how teenagers lactate when you squeeze their nipples be on a register somewhere? Just a thought…
Surely the comment should have been ‘you lactate like a normal mother whose body is working properly?’
Or ‘Sorry i touched you inappropriately, I apologise unreservedly, please don’t report me!’

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