>So, I recommended that she take her oral temperature and the temperature of
>the milk immediately coming from the breast. Her oral temperature was 98.4
>and the temperature of the milk was 91.2 F. Now what?
>One would assume that milk coming directly out of the breast should be the
>same as the core body temperature (which for most people is 99.6 F degrees).

Marie, I have always understood that milk coming from the breasts is
*cooler* and is meant to be, it is what babies expect, etc as we have
breasts that are 'protrusions' from the body (bit like testicles in
men that are meant to be cooler). I have also heard that when a
mother has mastitis, a baby may refuse to feed *because* the milk
feels too hot (ie it is more like core temperature).

The times I have used this information have been in discussing how
warm to have EBM when giving in a bottle, etc - ie not as hot as body
temperature, but somewhere between that and room temperature.

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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia.   mailto:[log in to unmask]
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