Since I have the luxury of having a Creamatocrit machine in my office, I am able to analyze milk that mothers either have pumped.  I have, so far, never tested milk at less than 22 calorie per ounce - and some as high as 45! And some of the "hind milk" has been lower than the "foremilk".  These observations as well as data from material presented at Hartmann conferences has made me discount the whole foremilk-hindmilk imbalance theory. 

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From: Lactation Information and Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pat Young
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:34 AM
Subject: calorie count of breast milk

I believe the 20  calorie count is an average. I'm sure there is some variation  person to person,  also time of day, age of baby (you know it turns into water at 6, 9 or 12 mo LOL) etc.  I'm sure at some point in the history of formula someone collected a lot of breastmilk and figured it out. 
Pat in SNJ


>   My question is how are you coming up with the caloric content of 
> breastmilk as my understanding is that it is not a set number...
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