Some
Breastfeeding MythsSome
Breastfeeding MythsNot true!
The vast majority of women produce more than enough milk. Indeed, an overabundance of milk is common. Most babies that gain too slowly or lose weight do so not because the mother does not have enough milk, but because the baby does not get the milk that the mother has. The usual reason that the baby does not get the milk that is available is that he is poorly latched onto the breast. This is why it is so important that the mother be shown, on the first day, how to latch a baby on properly, by someone who knows what s/he is doing.
Not true!
It is fine if a baby can also fall asleep withoug using the breast to fall asleep, but one of the advantages of breastfeeding is that you have a handy way of putting your tired baby to sleep. Mothers around the world since the beginning of mammalian time have done just that. One of the great pleasures of parenthood is having a child fall asleep in your arms, feeling the warmth s/he givs off as sleep overcomes him/her. It is one of the pleasures of breastfeeding that the baby falls asleep at the breast.
Some Breastfeeding Myths, Revised January 1995.
Jack Newman, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.