In a message dated 10/20/2005 9:15:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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<<So Jan, does the milk contain more fat at 4 months? That would  be the
simplest explanation of a higher calorie content. The baby is  stronger, the
milk ejection reflex is well-conditioned to the baby's  suckling, so the
breast is better drained at four months? This is  plausible, but do we have
any proof?>>
 
That's a great question, Chris, and I don't remember what Carlson's  
reasoning was for the increase in caloric value.  
 
I don't know what causes milk to change over time -- the milk of a mom of a  
preterm infant is different than that of a full term infant which is different 
 than that of a 6 month old.  Lots of things change -- caloric value among  
them.  I don't know what causes the change.
 
I guess -- Mother's Milk is Magic!






Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC (who has also passed the exam 3 times, but  only 
because she took it at the 15 year mark as well as the  10....)

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