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Tina Kimmel <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:36:34 -0800
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Didn't someone post a study here recently, showing that breastfed 
babies have more milk ducts (or was it breast tissue) than 
formula-fed babies?

I regret I didn't make myself a good link to the study, but it 
sounded incredibly important.

Tina


>Does anyone else have the sense that new moms who were themselves 
>breastfed tend to have ample milk supplies? I don't know if I'm 
>actually seeing it, but that's my *sense*. And I got to wondering: 
>when the mother was breastfed, grandma is usually with her after her 
>own delivery. And grandma is certainly seeing and smelling things 
>she saw and smelled a generation earlier. Might she, in turn, be 
>helping to crank up the levels of prolactin and oxytocin in the 
>household, either through her own hormonal levels or by providing a 
>layer of reassurance that a bottle-feeding grandma simply doesn't 
>provide? That's spinning a lot from a little, but for starters: do 
>others have the sense that they see "easier" milk from women who 
>were breastfed and whose mothers are now with them??
>
>Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY  USA
>www.wiessinger.baka.com>>

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