Pat writes,

<< This mom was pumping and using SNS to enhance intake to the max, and there
 was a very *thin* line of fat on her milk( almost invisible).  She called
 her aunt who was on a low choles. diet and asked what she couldn't eat.  My
 client began to eat all of those foods that she could.  The fat level did
 visibly increase on her pumped milk. Her baby's stools were yellow and
 baby's weight began to increase. >>

I've often wondered in cases where there is a very low fat diet, if increasing
fat in mom's diet would increase fat overall in the milk.  Same as with people
in starvation situations -- mostly in affluent countries where people are
eating well, a change in the diet won't affect the mothers milk -- such as
adding vitamins.  But in famine, or starvation situations, adding "stuff" to
the mother's diet will impact the composition of the milk, at least somewhat.

I had another mother years ago who was obsessively thin (often wondered if
anorexia was part of her life), and her baby was borderline FTT -- I really
nagged about increasing her fat intake (which she did reluctantly), and the
baby began to gain....

Jan Barger