>Does anyone know of a lab that does nutritional analasyis of an individual's
>breastmilk? I have been asked by someone in the corporate office of Walmart.
>
>Thanks,
>Pam McArthur RNC, IBCLC
>Rogers, AR


What would be the benefit to that individual (assuming it's an
individual mother who wants to know)?

Milk would need to be expressed, and there is no way of knowing if
the expressed milk would be the same as the milk that goes into the
baby at any one time.

Human milk is not homogenous - hurrah!!

You'd have to collect all the mother's milk over a period of
time....and then what would the baby drink in that time? And how
would it tell you what the baby took?

We don't have a 'baseline' of breastmilk adequacy with which to
compare a mother's own sample, anyway.

It would all be impracticable and rather pointless, I think :)

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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