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Thu, 24 Aug 1995 22:18:45 +0500
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Marie Biancuzzo asked about milk volume.  My information is from notes I
took at a lecture by Vergie Hughes at the Georgetown Course, 2/21/94.  You
could check with her for her source or any further new data.  Average milk
volumes:
        first 24 hours - average colostrum produced: 37 ml
        at 5 days - 500 ml a day
        at 7 days - 750 ml a day
        Of course there is great variation among mothers.  Some mothers in
            Australia have produced 1100 ml per day.
        Mothers of twins - 2100 ml per day.

Now, from another source, Gabrielle Palmer's "The Politics of
Breastfeeding" (I still have the first ed., p. 134), one of my favorite
stories, which I like to use to encourage the mothers of twins that I work
with: wet nurse Judith Waterford, written up in medical and lay papers in
1831, was still producing milk at age 81.  She nursed her own 6 children, 8
other nurslings, and many children of friends and neighbors.  In her prime
she produced 2 quarts of milk per day, but at age 75 she regretted that she
was only able to nurse one baby at a time!

Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC
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