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Heather writes:
<<I still don't get it - why test the milk? This is solely for the
doctor's benefit, then?
There is no such thing as 'weak milk' as we know. Would testing the
milk not confirm to the doctor that there *is* such a thing?>>
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Everyone *knows* that human milk is (always) ONLY 20 kcal/ounce. Hence we
need to fortify it for the calories. And everyone *knows* that it could
be *weak* because it might not have enough fat it in it. I have tried to
find research that shows exactly how mother's milk can differ from woman to
woman, time to time, feed to feed. I'd love to have a research article that
looks at the caloric value of a wide variety of mothers over a wide
variety of feeds, ages, times of day, and so on, and demonstrate that this very
assumption that all human milk is always 20 kcal/ounce be put to rest once
and for all. We know that fat can vary in human milk from 22 to 60 gm/L,
which makes for a huge difference in the caloric value of milk. But I'd love
to see someone do exactly what Jane is doing, only on a much wider basis.
It would be complicated, but not that much so....
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation Education Consultants
_www.lactationeducation.com_ (http://www.lactationeducation.com/)
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