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James O'Quinn <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:54:58 -0500
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This sure explains why they must play with the other one!
very interesting thanks for posting this...
I'm going to put "tap reflex" into my working vocabulary
Jen O'Quinn IBCLC
>
> In my experience, overactive MER is closely associated with relative
> oversupply and therefore volume-related. MER in veterinary medicine  
> can be
> stimulated by pressure, presumably without oxytocin involved. This  
> is called
> the "tap reflex". (calves butting their mothers' udders).  I have  
> found
> veterinary references a fertile place to find information on milk  
> ejection
> reflex, as the dairy industry was the first to study the  
> phenomenon, for the
> sake of profit. Of course, herdsmenew experientially about the  
> "draught"
> reflex for eons.
>
> Jean
> *******
> K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
> Dayton, Ohio USA
>

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