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Joan Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 16 Jun 1995 23:55:44 -0400
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>refusing to latch ever.  After 10 mins of double pumping with a hospital pump,
>mom got 2 + 15 drops of milk.  Was willing to pump if it would increase
>supply, not willing to use a supplementer.  We both think it unlikely that she
>would get much more milk with the presenting signs, no matter what she does.
>What do you all think?

Catherine,

I think you could get an increase in milk production with 120 min. a day
of double pumping but I'm not sure you'd get enough of an increase to make
it wothwhile.  The only way to know is to try it in the 1st 3 weeks
post-partum  - that's when you'll get the max. effect.



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******Joan M. Fisher, RN, BN, MEd, IBCLC******
***********Ottawa, Ontario, Canada************
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