Nikki Lee said <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
Hello Nikki,
The Australian Breastfeeding Association (fomerly Nursing Mothers
Association of Australia) like most breastfeeding organisations updates its
literature all the time using the most up to date research. Last year ABA
celebrated 40 years of breastfeeding support in Australia. This gave us
chance to search through archives and old cardboard boxes and take out and
re-read the early literature. It was interesting to see how far we had come
in our suggestions and recommendations and how even the language has
changed. The Jan 2005 edition of an Introduction to Breastfeeding Booklet
mentions that it is not unusual for new baby to want to feed 8-12 times in
24 hours.
As someone who has taken part in some of Peter Hartmans teams breastfeeding
research previously, the one thing that stuck with me was that of there
seems to be a wide range of *normal* both in mums and baby's. I am sure
this is something we have all seen in our proffessional lives.
warmly Susan
Susan Day IBCLC
Breastfeeding counsellor Kalgoorlie-Boulder group
Australian Breastfeeding Association
Mum to Susan Elizabeth 91, Catherine Anne 92, Miranda Jane 94, Josephine
Amanda 97, Charlotte Lily 02 & wife to Paul (lone male)
Breastmilk...goodness to the last drop.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikki Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: hind/fore milk
>
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2005 11:59:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> 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
> Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
>
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