Susan, Heather, and all,

I, too, have seen lots of anxiety and strange behavior from moms around 
foremilk and hindmilk, which is why I wrote the following blog post: 
http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/blog/tag/foremilk-hindmilk  Please feel 
free to share it.

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA, LLLL, BfUSA BC
Chicago suburbs

I just had a client email me a bunch of questions and discovered she was 
pumping and throwing out her foremilk. She is not such an oversupplier 
that she is in any danger of being out of balance and feeding the 
freezer all her hindmilk. So, it just dawned on me, are all these crazy 
over the top enhance your hindmilk strategies depriving some babies of 
water? I actually used this analogy in her case to get her to stop 
pumping before and throwing out her milk. How many mothers are 
discarding that first watery milk. Are those babies kidneys working 
harder because of it? I'm not talking about your average mom doing a 
little extra let it flow out when it sprays too fast, but the obsessive 
moms who take these things to extreme. Best, Susan Burger

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