Bonny writes:
>Thank you for your post, Linda. One thing I don't think that you mentioned
>was the light studies that were done showing that the storage capacity of
>the two breasts was only about 1 1/2 ounces, therefore leading us to
>believe that the rest of the feeding must be made at the time of the
>feeding. I can't remember where I read about the light study. Does it ring
>a bell for you?

I'm still trying to figure out the meaning of all the various research done
by Hartmann and others about when/where/how the milk is actually produced,
but I flat out don't believe that the storage capacity of the average two
breasts is only 1 1/2 ounces (even if you mean for each breast, for a total
of 3 ounces) because (sample size of one here), when I was hand-expressing
for my youngest, I could get 6-8-10 ounces in 4-5 minutes from my two
breasts combined.  And I am NOT big-breasted.  There's no way my body could
have whipped out 3-7 extra ounces of breast milk in the first 3-4 minutes of
hand expression -- is there?

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University