Heather states  "Nevertheless,  I am more than happy to have my scepticism 
removed :)"

Me too!  I recently had the privilege of speaking to Dr Leon Mitoulas re his 
research on fat content of human milk.  He feels that a creamatocrit might 
be useful in determining how adequately a mother of a preterm baby is 
expressing - given that the fat content increases as the breast gets 
emptier -  and the emptier breast encourages rapid milk synthesis.  For 
research purposes I can see it may be interesting, but in practice, if the 
mother is expressing within adequate guidelines that are reassessed daily, 
creamatocrits could unnecessarily complicate the picture?  Lactoengineering 
for a micro-prem may be a different story?

Jean Ridler  RN  RM  IBCLC
South Africa   [log in to unmask]

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