>Dear all:
>
>I just had a client email me a bunch of questions and discovered she
>was pumping and throwing out her foremilk. She is not such an
>oversupplier that she is in any danger of being out of balance and
>feeding the freezer all her hindmilk. So, it just dawned on me, are
>all these crazy over the top enhance your hindmilk strategies
>depriving some babies of water? I actually used this analogy in her
>case to get her to stop pumping before and throwing out her milk.
>How many mothers are discarding that first watery milk. Are those
>babies kidneys working harder because of it?
>
>I'm not talking about your average mom doing a little extra let it
>flow out when it sprays too fast, but the obsessive moms who take
>these things to extreme.
Oh my goodness......who is doing this? Is this a New York Manhattan
madness thing??? !
I have never come across anyone thinking this is a good thing to do,
or actually doing it.
I *am* finding mothers are somehow coming to a crazy
misunderstanding that 'foremilk' is not good and babies 'have to
reach' the hindmilk :( :( :( as if 'the foremilk' was some sort of
irritating barrier to the baby getting the 'good' stuff. So maybe I
should watch out for some mothers taking things to their illogical
conclusion.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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http://www.heatherwelford.co.ukhttp://heatherwelford.posterous.com
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