Lisa, you said <they never again reevaluate the EBM for nutritional/caloric changes or for variences between each and every nursing mother. When I remind them that EBM is not a stagnant product and human milk values change as the infants change, all the researchers have either replied, "well, I'll have to check with our dietician" or they have ignored my query.< I was at a talk given by Sandra Lang a while ago (some of you may know her book on feeding prem babies -- I am not sure how well known Sandra is outside the UK, in the rest of the 'developed' world, but she is considered quite an authority here) and she was speaking about some unpublished studies she had done on the sodium content of milk of mothers expressing for prem babies -- the content varied quite markedly if the milk had been expressed by hand or by electric, hospital grade pump [and sodium is only one element was her point -- that milk expressed by hand might be quite quite different in content from milk expressed by machine]. She had asked a very well known eminent researcher here in the UK, who has done well respected research about premature babies and human milk, how the milk in his study had been expressed, and *HE DIDN'T KNOW*. In fact, it wasn't clear if this had been documented at the time of the study. Interesting, hey, what? This research is part of the rock solid stuff we all quote to demonstrate what great stuff breastfeeding/milk is. Magda Sachs Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, erstwhile north american now stranded in the UK. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 25/12/2002 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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