Why is D-MER a newly recognized condition?
There are many answers to this question. The biggest cause has been that no one ever guessed so many women were being affected. There were not enough mothers coming forward to speak about their emotions while breastfeeding. Mothers were embarrassed and thought they were the only ones. It has been one of breastfeeding’s best kept secrets, but it’s time for that to end. Also, this is something that has been “swept under carpet” as one lactation consultant admitted. This is because when a medical professional came across a mother experiencing negative emotions when breastfeeding sometimes that practitioner told themselves it was “just one mother” and was able to dismiss it without further probing. It is also likely that many mothers were not associating their waves of depression with milk release and were diagnosed with PPD incorrectly. Lastly, when a medical professional did come across a mother complaining of this problem, it was assumed the mother was suffering from a psychological iss
