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Didn't someone post a study here recently, showing that breastfed
babies have more milk ducts (or was it breast tissue) than
formula-fed babies?
I regret I didn't make myself a good link to the study, but it
sounded incredibly important.
Tina
>Does anyone else have the sense that new moms who were themselves
>breastfed tend to have ample milk supplies? I don't know if I'm
>actually seeing it, but that's my *sense*. And I got to wondering:
>when the mother was breastfed, grandma is usually with her after her
>own delivery. And grandma is certainly seeing and smelling things
>she saw and smelled a generation earlier. Might she, in turn, be
>helping to crank up the levels of prolactin and oxytocin in the
>household, either through her own hormonal levels or by providing a
>layer of reassurance that a bottle-feeding grandma simply doesn't
>provide? That's spinning a lot from a little, but for starters: do
>others have the sense that they see "easier" milk from women who
>were breastfed and whose mothers are now with them??
>
>Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY USA
>www.wiessinger.baka.com>>
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