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Lactnetters & Pamela Morrison, I went to a study day in May 96 at Brighton, E.
Sussex UK entitled 'Milk As Medicine - when is a supplementary feed really
necessary?' Dr. Michael Woolridge was one of the speakers, his talk titled
'Genuine Lactation Insufficiency'. On finding my notes I see that they are
useless, I must brush up on this skill - but, I remember that his study, based
whilst at Bristol UK, showed something like - *each* breast at *each* birth
must be well used, and 'fully charged/discharged' rather like a rechargeable
battery, if not, the breast for that suckling period will never reach what
could be its maximum output. So a breast or breasts that are not used well in
the early days will have a poor output for one child and another time with
another child when well used will have a much higher output of milk. This
explanation is my v poor recollection and will in no way pay justice to what
was really told us. I just remember him painting the picture to me of the
breasts having a memory. Is there anyone out there that may have seen papers
by Mike on this or have got really good notes to draw on? Maybe he has not
published on this? I believe Mike is now based in Leeds, W. Yorkshire.
Helen M. Woodman, NCT BfC in UK
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