Pat Gima states:
...unless the mother has a serious over-supply.  I have had a couple of 
clients lately who were encouraged for their 10-12 ounce per pumping 8 times a 
day.  Then when baby goes to the breast she gets a tummy full of fore milk and 
suffers until the supply reaches a one-baby-sized milk supply.

Pat, I am so glad to hear that you also address the foremilk/hindmilk 
imbalance issue!  I see this quite often!  Mom pumps to maintain her milk supply, or 
moms who've had 1-2 babies previously and so their bodies "naturally" produces 
milk, and no one ever addresses the foremilk/hindmilk issues.  Symptoms are 
portrayed as a baby who's irritable, never satisfied with breastfeedings, and 
many times these babies still have yellow-seedy stools, because luckily the 
issues are being addressed before the stools change to green.  But, moms are 
often told to eliminate dairy from their diets or they supplement and these babies 
proceed to then either vomit-up the bottlefeeding because they're overfed, or 
they sleep it off for 4-5 hours because they've been stuffed!  

I wish I could intervene for more moms who present with these issues because 
I believe many of them get so frustrated that they just quit.  Yet, the 
problem is an easy fix if done right, and these babies become content and easy-going 
breastfeeding babies, despite dairy in mom's diet.  I wish more moms were 
steered for professional lactation assistance rather than offered the eliminate 
dairy and/or supplement solutions that I often encounter.  
Carol Chamblin, RN, MS, IBCLC
Breast 'N Baby Lactation Services, Inc.
St. Charles, IL  - where I'm dreaming that someday the profession of 
lactation consultants will truly become a member of the health care team and be 
referred to appropriately....



             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html