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Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:58:02 +0100
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Regarding Sonya's post about the doctor who is looking into metabolic
problems in a small-for-age baby and the mother's perception that the
cream fraction of her milk doesn't look 'rich and creamy', I hope the
mother can be reminded that bovine cream and human cream don't look
the same.
If she has an inch of something she believes to be cream at the top of
an 8 ounce bottle (is she able to express that much in one session?!),
that is approximately one eighth of the bottle.  Not exactly a small
amount!  One eighth is twelve and a half percent.  Cow's milk is
normally about four per cent fat.
This baby might just be a small person.  Size is still not a diagnosis
per se.  If the doctor is investigating metabolic disorders, why not
await the outcome of that before assuming there is something wrong
with the milk?   It's by far the least likely cause of the baby's
size.  Maybe the baby is not getting enough of it, maybe he is not
feeding often enough - or, maybe this mother who can express an eight
ounce bottle has such massive oversupply that the baby is living on
foremilk and suffering from calorie deficit because he is never
getting that twelve percent of fat.   Arggghh.

Rachel Myr, formelry a small, now just a short person, mother of a
short person, and grandmother of a small person
Kristiansand, Norway

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