Pat,
I have my suspicions in this area also and wonder if in cases of
non-puerperal lactation whether adjustment to age happens once a child
starts breastfeeding.
There is apparently a case study published in one of Peter Hartmann's papers
that found that a mother who had relactated or induced lactation (not sure
which) with a pump  had changes in her milk composition once breastfeeding
began.
Karleen


> Want to know another observation that LCs say is impossible?  I have had
> several clients whose infants have had no colostrum intake because of
> suckling challenges.  Mom is pumping and bottle feeding--white milk.  As
> soon as she begins to put baby to breast her pumped milk turns yellow to
> orange and retains that color for a few days, then turns back to white.  I
> believe that it is colostrum that baby "says" she needs because she missed
> it earlier.
>
> In fact one mother was just pumping one breast and feeding with the
> other.  The one where she was feeding had very yellow milk and the pumped
> one remained white.
>
> I have seen this so many times that I am firmly convinced that it is, in
> fact, colostrum mixed with the milk for as long as baby needs it.  I see
it
> with my Latina clients who do not feed baby until the "milk" is in.

> That shouldn't be too hard to test.  A mother whose premature baby is not
> feeding at the breast would have her milk tested for composition then she
> would put baby's mouth on the breast several times a day and have her milk
> retested for composition.

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