Micaela,

I have had 2 moms with one breast, exclusively feed singletons. I remember 
hearing that one mom wth one breast, exclusively nursed twins - but she was 
not my patient.

Gail
Gail S. Hertz, MD, IBCLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micaela Notarangelo" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 3:03 PM
Subject: How many multiples can be exclusively breastfed?


>I know it may depends on a large variety of factors, but what is the 
>maximum number of multiples that you have seen exclusively breastfed?
> How common you think it is?
>
> I would like this information for a different context than twins and 
> multiples.
> I have to talk about breastfeeding after mastectomy, and I want to give a 
> strong message about how it is possible to bf with one single breast.
> If I could say that in case of multiples, mothers have breastfed x babies 
> for each breast (where x is a number larger than one) I think I could give 
> a strong and intuitve image of the power of the breast to produce enough 
> milk.
>
> Can you help with numbers, please? :-)
>
> Thank you!
> Micaela
> LLL Leader, Italy
>
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