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Dear Friends:
Pam's record of her baby's intake and her production is fascinating;
thank you for sharing, Pam.
I remember seeing a chart somewhere, long ago, that showed a bell-curve
distribution of 24-hour milk production: at one end was 350 cc and at the
other was 900. The median was 750 cc. This was the range of normal human milk
production; and all the babies thrived. (I wish I could find this chart again,
because now I have more questions.)
However, if there are babies so tiny that they don't even make it onto
the growth charts (as with my neighbor's son, who finally made it onto the
charts at age 8), and babies that are huge and grow quickly, it stands to reason
that there would be variable ranges of production.
There has been talk in the past about women from particular ethnic
backgrounds making higher fat milk (for some reason, Lebanese women come to mind
here) or way too much milk (I am remembering Anna Utter's presentation at a
private practice conference about her population of central-European jewish).
Humans are variable all over the globe, just as any other species of
mammal.......so I can accept that milk production is another variable of human
activity, probably genetically-influenced.
What do you all think?
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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