Michele,
I received anecdotal information through La Leche League about a mother 
in Colorado who exclusively breastfed quintuplets.  When I was doing the 
research for my book Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple, I found the 
following article.  In its title "exclusive" is in quotes because one of 
the quadruplets had PKU (an inborn error of metabolism) and required a 
small amount of phenylalanine-free formula for that reason--not because 
this mother's milk production was insufficient to meet his needs.

Berlin, C. M. (2007). "Exclusive" breastfeeding of quadruplets. 
/Breastfeeding Medicine, 2/(2), 125-126.

Perhaps Karen Gromada can tell you more.

Warm regards,

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA, LLLL
Lactation Consultant, Ameda Breastfeeding Products
Chicago suburbs
www.NancyMohrbacher.com <http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/>


> I know it may depends on a large variety of factors, but what is the
> maximum number of multiples that you have seen exclusively breastfed?
> How common you think it is?
>
> I would like this information for a different context than twins and
> multiples.
> I have to talk about breastfeeding after mastectomy, and I want to give
> a strong message about how it is possible to bf with one single breast.
> If I could say that in case of multiples, mothers have breastfed x
> babies for each breast (where x is a number larger than one) I think I
> could give a strong and intuitve image of the power of the breast to
> produce enough milk.
>
> Can you help with numbers, please? :-)
>
>    


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