Hi,

I did find the information I was looking for.  I'm currently studying for my lactation consultant exam and it is the recommended test per the literature (yes, designed by Thomas Hale) to get a rough estimate of a mother's milk production in 24 hrs.  The way you do it is to have a mother pump with a hospital grade pump every hour for 15 minutes for four consecutive hours.  You add the the totals she pumps for hours 3 & 4 and divide by two.  Then you multiply by 24 hrs.  This gives you an estimate of her hourly production and her daily production.  Of course it's not a perfect design, but it is what's recommended in the lactation consulting literature for daily milk production when assessing a woman with a potentially low milk supply.  

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