Do I understand you well, Gonneke... do you question the research about the
necessity of a vacuum, research sponsored by a pump company...? ;-))

Bye,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands (and wondering about the
(non-existing?) storage capacity in the milk ducts and the sticking of milk
fat to the duct walls, apparently denied by the same research(er) and even
more wondering about this after yesterday's interesting story about the
trick to get strings of milk out, strings that certainly come from the ducts
and not from the alveoli, I would reckon...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "gonneke van veldhuizen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] breastmilk supplementation


I must have missed something. I did not know that vacuum was a prerequisit
for full milkejection. If so, how come moms can easily and often even better
hand-express than pump?

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LClecturer, wondering in southern Netherlands

--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Kershaw Jane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Kershaw Jane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] breastmilk supplementation
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 11:19 PM

If you believe the research on let-down which shows that if there is not
adequate vacuum on the nipple, when the milk lets down, it 'backs up" into
less full areas and is less available on the next let-down,

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