Dear Friends:
    Newborn milk (also known as colostrum) is designed  to clear meconium, 
and seal the gut and immunize. It is not for growth. So a  baby whose sole 
source of nutrition is the breast can not sustain growth  once the mother's milk 
changes back to newborn milk. Whereas, a baby  who is also eating solids can 
grow on a combination of pregnant mother's milk  plus those solids. 
    As for amounts of newborn milk, I am amazed at its  volume! I used to 
believe, based on what I had learned from the evidence, that  the amounts of 
colostrum were small.
    After putting newborn s2s for 15-20 minutes, then  having mothers hand 
express, and seeing rivers of flowing milk (of all  colors: some streams are 
clear, some yellow and some white and all flowing from  the same nipple), I am 
not surprised at the volumes that are cited in this case  study, of 60cc. I have 
seen primalactas express a full teaspoon of newborn milk  in just a minute or 
two.
    What is everyone else's experience?
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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