> There have been some very limited studies on the composition of milk of
> women who were not recently pregnant, one of which Peter Hartmann was a
> coauthor on way back in 1981, essentially the milk is very similar to that
> of women who have an established lactation. However, there have not been any
> studies that have examined how milk composition might change over the
> duration of a lactation, how composition might be influenced by the age of
> the baby when breastfeeding begins etc.

Thank you, Karleen, for the answer on this.  This is quite
interesting.  Do you know whether the milk he collected for his study
(or "they" did...) was the milk that drips out the other side?  I
presume that is pretty much always the case, though maybe I'm wrong on
this point?

Thanks,

fio
Mama to Sandrine, 3.5 yrs, and Nyssa, 10 mos, tandem nursing.
Ressource person with Allaitement Québec.

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