>I've been assuming that, while a large-breasted
> woman *may* have a small capacity, the small-breasted woman is more
> likely to be the one who gets full fast and needs to feed really often,
> just because there's less overall volume to the breast, and that the
> super-volumes are unlikely to be from the small-breasted women.  Am I
> wrong about this?

I had two private responses to this.  One was from a woman who, though
barely an A pre-pregnancy, routinely pump 8 oz at a sitting and could have
pumped more.  The other was from a woman whose doctor commented that each of
her placentas was large.  Peter Hartmann commented at a conference on
research linking placenta size with milk production - the reason a mother of
non-nursing twins tends to pump more milk than the mother of a non-nursing
singleton (something I'd always wondered about).

The fact that a small breast can hold 4 or more ounces answers my question
for most practical purposes.  But I still wonder if any small breast could
hold the 20 ounces of the 600 ml capacity breast that Catherine Featherstone
cites.   I mean, that's an awful lot of volume that has to go *somewhere*.
Or is it like those car ads that used to say something like, "more compact
than ever on the outside, more room than ever on the inside"?

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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