Dear Lisa,


>
> What you read addressed the rate at which the growing mammary gland
> continues to grow into the mammary fat pad. I am especially interested in
> the idea of "displacing" fat and would love to know how many of those
> breasts changed in size on the outside.

They do not assess the growth of the breasts, but they wrote that "adipose
tissue was displaced by the glandular as the pregnancy progressed; amount of
the connective tissue was also markedly reduced".
I find it interesting that Peter Hartmann's team found that in women that
participated in their studies at the beginning of 90s, right breasts were 
far
more productive than the left ones. And this article from the other side of
the world shows that left breasts developed a bit slower during the 
pregnancy.

One of my theories regarding the
> mothers who don't experience breast changes but do go on to have normal
> supplies (as reported by Hartmann) is that they really do experience
> glandular growth, only it is offset by fat loss for a net outside (cup
> size)
> change of zero.

Just my thoughts about your theory and this article... As we can see from 
this article, some women already have
"glandular" or "mixed" type of breasts at the beginning of the pregnancy.
Their breasts have to change in size during their pregnancy, because there
is probably little place inside for growth.  And some little percentage of
women has breasts of adipose type (and they able to conceive so their
hormones probably OK). In this case, replacement of fat tissue by the
glandular can take place inside the breast, eithout marked change of it size

>
> I would love to read this article! Wouldn't it be fascinating to do this
> kind of research with "normal" vs "questionable" moms/breasts?  Especially
> moms with infertility and other high risk problems.


I will translate and send this article in a couple of days as my kids permit 
me to do this.

I was interested in it because when I translated first two
articles for you and read about some percent of women with full fatty
degeneration of breast glandular tissue, I became concerned whether
adoptive mother with this condition of the breast will be able to generate
some supply. And this article about breast growth really delighted me,
because it shows that in pregnant women breasts of "fatty" type do change.

Sincerely yours, Victoria Nesterova,
Kiev, Ukraine

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