I dont' know who originally posted, "I had a client whose baby had a bruised tongue after the birth and he couldn't feed at the breast or with a bottle. Mom had a good supply and fed the baby with a spoon. Her milk was milk-white. When baby healed and began suckling at the breast sometimes (about 2 weeks) she called me in alarm. "My milk is dark yellow!) The volume was bountiful still but baby had said, "I didn't get my colostrum," and his saliva stimulated the breasts to add colostrum for about 3 days. Then the milk returned to white. I have seen this repeated many times with mothers who are pumping and whose babies did not feed adequately at the breast before the mature milk came in. I have come to expect it. ---------------------------- this is amazing! Has anyone else seen this? How about the adoptive moms here? I've always wondered about the cultures in which the baby isnt' allowed to nurse during the first days; how could that practice have survived? I would have assumed greater illness in those babies; maybe there is, but they might be compensating for it. ===== Kate Hallberg, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html Mom to Ursula (8!), Sage (5.5) and Benno (23 mos) "Happy the man with a nursing child, for he has a singing wife." - German proverb >^,,^< __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html