I agree.  Most of the working mothers I know had one breast which produced more than the other.  For me, it wasn't just with the pump--I would pump 6 ounces on my right side while only 3-4 on my left, but it was also true with breastfeeding.  When my first was an infant, I didn't notice this so much but as they aged, and became nursing toddlers, preschoolers, it was clear that my right breast produced more, and that the milk flowed more easily, and my children preferred the right to the left. My youngest said the milk even tasted different.  By the last years of nursing, my children only nursed on the right, my left drying up nearly completely. 

Joylyn
---- Diana Cassar-Uhl <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Hi Janie,
> 
> The situation you describe of a mother producing 4-5 ounces from one  
> breast but only 1-2 from the other is quite common and probably not a  
> cause for concern.  In fact, it's almost identical to what I  
> experience when I return to work (only I rarely got 4 ounces from one  
> side!).  My right side is far and away the better producer, despite my  
> efforts to encourage the left side to produce more (I was tandem  
> nursing two of my children and allowed the older, stronger nurser to  
> only nurse from the left side while the younger child got both sides,  
> making the left used twice more often than the right for about 18  
> months).
> 
> As long as the baby gets what he needs when he nurses, and this mother  
> keeps her supply up while she's away from her baby, the discrepancy in  
> output is probably not a concern.
> 
> --Diana in NY
> LLLL
> 
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