The literature is replete with studies seeking to identify mothers' difficulties in sustaining exclusive breastfeeding. Mothers across studies, across ethnic groups, and across social classes all cite an insufficient or inadequate milk supply as an important reason for stopping exclusive breastfeeding before 6 months.1 By contrast, among health professionals, physical problems that inhibit milk production are believed to be very rare, with only about 4% of women thought to have this condition. This is a significant disconnect between what science says and what women tell us. This disconnect is relatively unexplored. Where are the follow-up studies that can pinpoint reasons for this discrepancy? Implicit in the lack of follow-up is an assumed failure of women to use the right techniques in breastfeeding, that they are lying, or that they don't really want to breastfeed. Studies to evaluate whether or not new mothers are indeed not producing milk are rare. If we assume women are at fault, the intervention is isolated at the individual level, and the optimal solution is to educate women on correct techniques and benefits of breastfeeding.