- Growth hormone treatment can improve growth and influence a girl’s final adult height. In fact, in many cases, the treatment can help many girls with Turner syndrome reach a final height in the average range, especially if treatment is started early enough in childhood.
- Another treatment for Turner syndrome is estrogen replacement, which helps the girl develop the physical changes of puberty, including breast development and menstrual periods. This treatment is often started when a girl reaches about age 12 or 13.
- And a technique called in vitro fertilization can make it possible for some women with Turner syndrome to become pregnant. A donor egg can be used to create an embryo, which is then put into the uterus (womb) of the woman with Turner syndrome. With proper supportive care, the woman can carry the pregnancy to term and deliver a baby through the normal birth process.

I would like to ask if there is any research into finding a cure for Turner Syndrome. I am aware it would be highly difficult as it is a chromosomal abnormality and i have looked at whether there is any research going into these abnormalities but cannot find anything?

This is the top Google result when I searched for “new mum rest milk supply”. As such, it matters that what you tell people is factually correct. Please consider reading pages 133-4 of Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers. Under ‘Common Misconceptions’, ‘What everyone thinks affects milk supply (but doesn’t)’ it lists Drink more fluids, Eat a better diet and Get more rest.

Low milk supply is a function of insufficient extraction of milk. That can be because of poor positioning, too few feeds, taking the baby off before he’s finished or in a few cases a problem with the baby’s tongue.
Only your second last paragraph, “feed baby more” is really on the right lines.

A breastfeeding mother needs to drink only to quench her thirst – one study even found that forcing yourself to drink more than you want can actually decrease milk supply (Dusdieker 1985).

A mother is not going to stop producing milk for the sake of a 500 calorie deficit, any more than a dieting woman eating 1500 calories a day rather than the recommended 2000 would stop making red blood cells or insulin. In fact, a 1983 study in developing countries by Prentice found that neither milk quality nor quantity even begins to suffer until 3 weeks of famine conditions have passed. In the developed world it is highly unlikely that a mother’s milk will be affected in any way by her diet – only her own energy levels will drop if she doesn’t eat sufficient good food.

Likewise, rest is a good thing for anyone coming to terms with the demands of a new baby. But no study has shown any link to milk supply. It just doesn’t work that way.

It’s great that you care enough to try to help people but giving them the wrong information can lead them to miss real problems with the latch that they need help to fix, the sooner the better. And some people may feel they “must” have low milk supply if they haven’t time to eat well and are having very broken nights so may follow your advice on fenugreek. This could well lead to problems of oversupply – even mastitis.

Please give some thought to this and perhaps contact La Leche League or a lactation consultant – I’m sure they’d be happy to suggest ways in which you could really help new Mums.