>Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am looking for some 
>studies on baby being able to get more milk from the breast than a 
>breast pump can remove, but I am having some trouble. I have heard 
>this a lot and I say it myself, but it doesn't make much sense to me.


Nor to me.

What is clear is that a pump is *different* and it is surely safer to 
say that the pump may get *more*, or *less*, out of the breast than a 
baby.

For instance, we all know about mothers who breastfeed twins quite 
happily but if they express milk, they hardly get anything. It is 
obvious in that case that the babies do a better job than the pump.

On the other hand, we all know of babies who are for whatever reason 
unable to remove milk effectively, and the pump can get more out.

What drives me CRAZY is mothers of perfectly happy, thriving babies 
who for some reason decide to use a pump to get milk  and then freak 
out because they 'only' get 40mls or 30 mls or 20 mls and then 
someone/a book tells them this can't possibly be enough for their 
baby and they worry they are losing their milk.

Judging a milk supply by what a mother can produce for her breastpump 
at any one time is very misleading - the pump could be 'better' or 
'worse'.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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http://www.heatherwelford.co.uk

http://heatherwelford.posterous.com

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