Jan writes:
      If you are not taking milk out of
> the breast, how are we then telling the breasts to make more?

If it were not true that just stimulating the breasts without actually
removing milk "told" the breasts to make more, how would a mom relactate
after weaning or induce a milk supply for an adopted baby?  When a mom is
starting with "nothing" as in an adoptive situation, we all know that milk
will eventually be produced just by pumping and/or the baby suckling at the
breast with a supplementer.  I couldn't explain the physiology behind it,
but in the beginning, no milk is being removed, yet done often enough, milk
appears.
    Kristeen Rogers,RN, BSN, IBCLC
    Crystal Lake, IL

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