Anne wrote: >In the discussion about improving a mother's milk supply, reference was >made by Heather, I believe, to using "plain ol' vanilla" as a remedy. >Would you please, explain. TIA Then Heather wrote: Yikes! It's just an expression, a metaphor - nothing to do with vanilla or ice cream or anything! ---- Then again I remember listening to a food tech guy talking about research that measured milk intake in babies whose mothers had been given alcohol (beer I think), garlic or vanilla essence. The babies intake decreased after the mothers consumed alcohol, stayed the same after garlic and, you guessed it, increased after vanilla intake. I have always thought it hilarious that babies like vanilla milkshake. Maybe vanilla tablets would help increase supply by increasing the vigor of the suck?! ;-) Karleen Gribble Australia *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html