Poor quality breast milk? Is this possible?

[Jasnem]

I am often told that I'm lucky that I must produce good quality milk as my ds is large, content, and exclusively breast fed.
Is this true? Do some women not produce good enough milk?

I think it is down to deceication and motivation on my part...am I wrong? Am I just lucky?

I binned my red book [shock, horror]

those damn graphs - shall we sacrificially burn them?

Interesting, I think.

Can't we just burn all the HVs?

my dd was8.10 at birth and is now small for age. she eats well andbags energy. her chart would give a hv heart falure

what is 8.10 in 21st century units please?

ds was dead average (3300g) at birth and is tiny now, but dd is still average. I'm afraid it's down to the parasite, sorry, baby, rather than the mother.

no idea

i do hope they change them thanks for that link!

You're talking utter bollocks Matnanplus.

glad to see someone said what i was thinking.

loving that moon!

Please be clear i didn't suggest the formula or expressing to feed, i am a maternity NANNY and give my mothers all the support i can and that includes phone numbers for help in breastfeeding, BUT when Pead and HV suggest formula, i can only support the mother in which ever decision she makes, present mum expresses at midnight and feeds at 6pm and 4 am, supply in the morning/day is great she experienced difficulties in the evening 8pm and 1130pm feeds, why i don't know, that is why i asked for advice tho sorry if some think my job/asking was a problem, i have been on a breastfeeding day course, read many books, had longterm bf mum's, i ask questions if i don't know and gather info from the net and apart from ttc and doing it myself i can't see how i can get much more experience.

Say what you mean moondog, no point pussyfooting about

Soo sorry moondog, i explained a situation a mother is facing and the advice others have given her, i come on here for more advice and it's utter bollocks, gee thanks for the helpful advice

Oh well if Paed and HV (pause for respectful genuflection)recommend formula then it has been Set in Stone.

Think and say what you like Matnanplus,but it is still bollocks.

Have to say i'm rather glad i didn't direct mum here to ask as that is the type of comment that would cause her great distress.

Advice?? Who said anything about me advising you???
I'm not offering you advice,I'm pointing out that your advice is wrong and deeply damaging.

My HV has the intellectual capacity of a cluster of unusually slow-witted termites. And almost as much charm. But maybe she's unusual.

I bloody hate it when healthcare bods refer to mothers as "mum". It's patronizing and a little shudder-inducing.

at the lack of help and at the tone.

Must remember asking for help is not to be done by a non mum it seems

Matnanplus,in very simple terms,more breastfeeding =more milk.

It's not rocket science.
You have been duped like most of the population.
Whether or not you are a mother is irrelevant.

hello, i asked mn for advice, and passed on the advice the mother, who now she is a mother likes the term 'mum', had been given by others and I get hit for it, it was not me that suggested formula, i came on to seek helpful advice on a way to get her evening supply up as the baby says there is no milk.

please explain how you get a hungry baby to nurse when there is no milk and baby pulls away, thrashes about and cries loudly, not something she normaqlly does.

Please i would love to know how to get her to nurse calmly when she is upset at the lack of sustanence.

I like the term "mum" too, when my children use it

Babies are unsettled in the evening

I breastfed my son and never gave formula. He was unsettled in the evening and wanted to breastfeed a lot. I breastfed a lot. A hell of a lot. Giving formula is never the answer to a breastfeeding problem.