Too Thin to Nurse - Page 2

[Calidris]

I don't think you are "too thin" to nurse unless you stop producing milk.

20+ years ago, in the early coverage of the famine in Ethiopia (which sparked Live Aid) Time magazine had a cover pic of an emaciated woman and her infant son. The picture sparked a minor controvesy with people claiming that they were faking the news, since the child looked fairly healthy and the woman, though alarmingly thin had large full breasts. They had to run a story with medical experts explaining that even under starvation conditions a mother produces milk for her child.
The point of that ramble of course is that if a literally starving-to-death woman in Ethiopia can nurse her child a skinny Westerner will be fine.

[p1gg1e]

Let me debunk the myth I'm 5'11, 130lbs (before I got prego with #2) and here is a picture of my DD at 9 months:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...e/Willa082.jpg

only drinking BM at this point. She was 26lbs.

Tell her Dr. to smoke that
Sorry the picture is so small

[sdm1024]

My ped hasn't said anything about it, but I do get comments from other people. I'm 5'8" and around 117 and have been BF for the past 9 months. I've always been thin, it's just the way that I'm built.

It's frustrating, and sometimes I wish that people would mind thier own business.

[Peony]

I'm naturally very thin thanks to excellent genetics. My lowest weight nursing dd1 was 98 lbs, I'm 5'5, and I was packing in the calories. I usually like to be around 105, it's hard for me to get my weight over that. I wanted to gain more weight before getting pg with dd2, it took me a year to get to a whopping 112, and I make plently of milk, that is not an issue.

[CalebsMama05]

wow now I don't feel like such a freak I weighed myself at walmart yesterday (ds#2 will be 4m tomorrow) and was appalled that at almost 5'8" i'm down to 120lbs.

I always felt like a weirdo for being so thin. I got down to 110lbs with ds#1 and my weight didn't change at all after he was on formula full time. sad, that someone believes this.

[sophmama]

I nursed my dd and got down to 95 lbs. (just below my pre-preggo weight) (I'm 5'4") and NEVER had a supply issue. I lost the 45 lbs. I gained from pregnancy and continued to nurse her for 2.5 YEARS without an issue until she weaned!!! : My itty-bitty not-even-A-cup breasts never had a supply problem. I actually don't even have all the tissue on my right side as I was born without it so tell that doctor to SUCK ON THAT! :

[cjuniverse]

Lucky lanky ladies.

I'm a big mami, but this still sounds like a bunch of hoo-hoot to me. As a previous poster pointed out, there's no reason a well-fed Westerner should have problems nursing, skinny or not.

Ahhh! Why?! Why do these silly silly people insist on poisoning the minds of so many with their complete crap? WHY?

OP, said doctor is talking out their butt. Time for a new one!

[LydiaJW]

I was repeatedly told in the hospital, after delivering my 8 lb 11 oz son "you'll never be able to make enough milk for a baby that size, just go ahead and give him formula." At 19 years old, the only reason I didn't believe her baloney is my mom was an amazing lactivist and mentor to me. My kids have both been in the 90th percentile or above during the first year, and my bmi is typically an 18.0, which is technically "underweight." Get a new ped.

[Snowdrift]

Hm, so women are too thin to nurse as well as too fat to nurse. Anyone find a ped yet who has announced she is too average to nurse?

Just another way for doctors to be vaguely insulting while dispensing some kind of bad advice.

I think they feel they have to tell us to do something different that what we are doing; if they confirm what we're doing is just fine their authority might be undermined.