Christel wrote:

>"I remember seeing photographs at a conference  actually showing fat
>droplets clinging to the duct walls before MER and  then the same duct walls
>cleared of the fat globules after MER.  It  makes perfect physiological
>sense."
 
I have micrographs from an old publication that show in the MOUSE  fat  
globules clinging to the cell membrane before the MER and then freed from it  
afterward. There are actually pits on the cell membranes where the fat globules  
were formerly located.
 
Peter Hartmann's work with ultrasound exam of the ducts under the areola of  
the breast where the baby is NOT attached shows that when the baby on the 
other  breast creates a let-down that at first the unused breast ducts expand and 
the  globules, which are visible via ultrasound, stream down toward the nipple 
pores.  But then when the milk does not exit, the stream reverses and the 
milk fat  globules reverse and go back up the ducts. 
 
Mardrey Swenson 
 

>In the Belgian organization of health workers where I 'm employed,  years
>ago they organised a symposium about breastfeeding.   One  of the speakers
>used the oneliner "they grow best on second  breast". 
>I'm not happy with the use of this one-liner.  
 
 >But they explained that this slogan was standing for the  fact
>that, while the baby is drinking at the first breast, the hind- and  formilk
>in the second breast are mixed already after MER.  So in the  second breast,
>they say, is never formilk anymore.

>I think this could be true when a mother has obviously a MER at  second
>breast and she looses already a certain amount of milk.  If  she doesn't
>leak at second breast while baby drinks at first one, I can't  imagine that
>the milk in the breast is already mixed and the fat droplets  came free.  I
think it needs a powerfull stream of milk, to  clear  the duct walls from
>fat (in case the periods between feedings were long  enough to speak about
>for- and hindmilk!).   Does anyone know  where I can find something about
>this subject or about this  slogan?




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