In response to Rachel and Pamela:
I have had many well supplied mothers find their extra bottle by doing one 
morning pump when their breasts are nice and full, with a mere 10 minutes or 
so of pumping. But I have also seen women with a limited milk storage 
capacity in their breasts or low production, who are feeding every two hours 
round the clock with very little extra to extract by whatever the means. So, 
the catch 22 is that the women  most likely to be worn out are often the ones 
with the least capacity to pump and store milk. Sometimes these women will 
say - if only I could get a block of sleep....and Pam you are right, the idea 
expressed in my original post was that of having the partner give that bottle 
in the middle of the night, so that she could skip a feeding. And Rachel, I do 
agree, that it is not necessarily the majority of men who will be leaping out of 
bed to give that bottle!!!! And I think many women are hard wired to be 
awake when the baby is awake in the middle of the night anyway. So if the 
partner was in the other room giving a bottle, the mom might be lying in bed  
awake and listening to the whole thing. But for that worn out, vulnerable mom 
who wants a discussion of the risks of that one bottle of formula, I just 
wanted to know what is the current state of the research. The Marsha Walker 
article is great but I was just wondering if there is anything else.
Thanks,
Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC

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