> Stimulus of the breast alone - without removal of milk - doesn't do a
> thing.  I was convinced that if the baby has a poor suck, he can stimulate
> the breast all day long, but  the mom's supply will quickly go downhill
> because the milk isn't being removed.

This is very interesting!  We've all been saying "supply and demand" for
years without really understanding what we were talking about.  One
question though -- if milk must be removed to increase supply, how is it
that a prospective adoptive mother builds up a milk supply from zero by
pumping?

~~ Nancy Penney
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