Comments on: “…You Make Milk Like A Teenager!”

By: Jade

Jade — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:29:10 +0000

Well, I am one of those mamas who had a HUGE supply and pretty much drowned my kids when I BF. I was a teenager (19) when I had my 1st and only 21 when I had my 2nd and was certainly not short on milk. Unfortunately, despite (or because) my huge supply, I didn’t succeed in BF my 1st for very long because I had no support whatsoever to get it established, we had a poor latch, clicky tongue, drowsy baby, little sucking reflex, he hated anything touching his mouth, I had HUGE boobs and it all fell apart around day 5 all was resolved with #2. Of course if I knew all that I did when I had my 2nd when I had my 1st I would have tried harder, persisted more but I didn’t and it was the right decision at the time.

By: Gemma

Gemma — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:41 +0000

Do you have any studies that prove this. Not saying it isn’t true but I am a trainee breastfeeding counsellor and I have NEVER heard of this before.

By: Skyfire

Skyfire — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:23:12 +0000

The LC in the hospital when my daughter was born didn’t just squeeze my nipple, she grabbed, yanked, pulled and crammed it into my daughter’s mouth. Then she got all pissed when I hollered in pain and my daughter was shocked off the breast. “You ruined a good latch!”

By: Serene

Serene — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:56 +0000

OK thumbs down for the sheer idiocy of saying it. But yes, the info is correct. Younger mums make more milk I could feed my son from one side a full feed and still pump a 200 mL bottle if I felt the need. Sadly though, teen mums are also less likely to breastfeed.

By: Gem

Gem — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:01:45 +0000

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!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:28:40 +0000

Exactly- why do it at all? How can they justify it?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:00:05 +0000

What bothered me most was the inappropriate touch.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:12:20 +0000

You could have drowned…

By: Andy (UK Midwife)

Andy (UK Midwife) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:11:45 +0000

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!’

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:33:28 +0000

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?!?