Dear Friends:
        Joy's post is detailed and very clear. Thank you, Joy.  Dr.
Hartmann's work is fabulous.  He spoke in Florida of discovering that fat
content in milk  is not consistent from one lactation to the next, of how the
rate of synthesis changes during the feed. He found one woman with a 800 cc
storage capacity in one breast, and a 1500 cc storage capacity in the other.
He said that storage capacity relates to interbout interval, and that when
the breast is full, milk fat is low; as the breast is emptied, fat increases.
        I wonder about the fats in the milk of women that breastfeed 4 times
an hour, like the !Kung.  Their breasts must not get so full, right? Are the
spreads in fat concentration of the milk the scientists have studied an
artifact of interbout intervals? Will we ever know? Warmly, Nikki Lee

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