In a message dated 5/4/2005 11:59:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Dr. Cregan  answered (4/27/2004) (quote)
"Indeed, Niki almost got it right. The  variation in fat content is not
related to synthesis, but rather the fact  that fat 'sticks' to the ducts as
milk is ejected from the breast and thus  it travels slower. As such at milk
ejection the aqueous components depart  from the breast earlier than the
fatty components, creating low fat milk in  the fore and high fat milk in
the hind. This has nothing to do with the  synthesis. Indeed fat synthesis
is likely to have been at its greatest  immediately after a feed when the
breast is most drained of milk. Thus, as  with prolactin, secretion is
highest in an empty breast. But in the case of  fat, the stickiness of fact
to the ductal cell membranes creates a gradient  and thus a 'perceived'
difference in synthesis."  (unquote)


Dear Colleagues:
    The Kung San mothers were monitored and discovered  to be nursing their 
babies about 60 times a day, about every 15 minutes for  about 2.5 minutes. 
Their babies thrive.
    How does this mechanism apply to them?
    I wonder about the population that the wonderful  (seriously, he is 
AWESOME) Dr. Hartmann and his team have studied. I have a  publication from the 
Australian Nursing Mothers Association that recommends  nursing at least 6 times 
a day. Women nursing that number of feeds a day must  have a large storage 
capacity (which relates to infant feeding  interval).................wouldn't 
that have an impact on the findings the team  has discovered?
    warmly,

 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
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