Heather  writes:
 

<<I still don't get it - why test the milk? This is solely for  the 
doctor's benefit, then?

There is no such thing as 'weak milk' as  we know.   Would testing the 
milk not confirm to the doctor that  there *is* such a thing?>>

 
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Everyone *knows*  that human milk is (always) ONLY 20 kcal/ounce.  Hence we 
need to fortify  it for the calories.  And everyone *knows* that it could 
be *weak* because  it might not have enough fat it in it.  I have tried to 
find research that  shows exactly how mother's milk can differ from woman to 
woman, time to time,  feed to feed.  I'd love to have a research article that 
looks at the  caloric value of a wide variety of mothers over a wide 
variety of feeds, ages,  times of day, and so on, and demonstrate that this very 
assumption that all  human milk is always 20 kcal/ounce be put to rest once 
and for all.  We  know that fat can vary in human milk from 22 to 60 gm/L, 
which makes for a huge  difference in the caloric value of milk.  But I'd love 
to see someone do  exactly what Jane is doing, only on a much wider basis.  
It would be  complicated, but not that much so....
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation  Education Consultants
_www.lactationeducation.com_ (http://www.lactationeducation.com/)  

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