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Date: | Thu, 24 Aug 1995 22:18:45 +0500 |
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Marie Biancuzzo asked about milk volume. My information is from notes I
took at a lecture by Vergie Hughes at the Georgetown Course, 2/21/94. You
could check with her for her source or any further new data. Average milk
volumes:
first 24 hours - average colostrum produced: 37 ml
at 5 days - 500 ml a day
at 7 days - 750 ml a day
Of course there is great variation among mothers. Some mothers in
Australia have produced 1100 ml per day.
Mothers of twins - 2100 ml per day.
Now, from another source, Gabrielle Palmer's "The Politics of
Breastfeeding" (I still have the first ed., p. 134), one of my favorite
stories, which I like to use to encourage the mothers of twins that I work
with: wet nurse Judith Waterford, written up in medical and lay papers in
1831, was still producing milk at age 81. She nursed her own 6 children, 8
other nurslings, and many children of friends and neighbors. In her prime
she produced 2 quarts of milk per day, but at age 75 she regretted that she
was only able to nurse one baby at a time!
Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC
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