Jacqui--


My condolences to you and your family.

May he rest in peace.

--K. Koncelik


On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:47  AM, Jacqui Gruttadauria.
wrote:

> In a message dated 12/18/2003 7:54:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> <Mother called stating that her pumped milk has an appearance that is
> clearer than skim milk. After it has been standing a layer of fat is
> evident but not as much as in the past.>
>
> This sounds more like an artifact of the length of the time period
> before
> those pumpings than a phenomenon of secretion changes.
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> i was just skimming quickly through posts when this caught my eye. w/
> my 1st,
> i got caught up in a vicious pumping cycle. he was in nicu, so i had
> to start
> it to keep things going. when he came home, i had to keep pumping to
> help w/
> engorement, etc... and i thought having a freezerful of milk was almost
> required. for the 1st 3 mos of his life after the colostrum was gone,
> every pumping
> yielded what looked like lemonade. it had the barest scrim of cream on
> top. i
> got copious amounts and felt/saw 2-3 letdowns per 20 min pumping
> session, but
> my milk was always lemonad-y. after reading all i could find back
> then, i
> concluded premie milk was just different and as long as he seemed to
> be growing
> fine, it must be fine. then i had my 2nd and my milk was always as
> thick and
> heavy as whipping cream. when separated, i had as much as an inch and
> a half of
> cream. i've always assumed my conclusion about the gestational ages at
> birth =
> the difference in milk - is that not something that is possible? it
> always
> made sense b/c #1 was always a skinny stick baby but reached
> milestones ahead of
> schedule and #2 was a fat little roly poly boy. (who reached
> milestones even
> more ahead of schedule).
>
> ~jacqui gruttadauria, who is looking for distractions this snowy
> morning in
> michigan after her father in law died suddenly and unexpectedly the
> night
> before last from a heart attack. (after just receiving a clean bill of
> heart health
> from a cardiologist the very day before his death when he went in for
> tightening in his chest!)
>
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