>>I also think it's interesting that there's no evidence that milk supply does increase with "growth spurts." Even though I believed that in general milk supply did not increase, I thought it did go up and down a bit. Like Denise Fisher I assumed that when babies were going through a slow growth phase milk supply dropped a bit and when they went through a fast growth phase they bumped it up again. Doesn't seem inconsistent to me.<< Has Peter actually followed a mom or mothers really closely for 6 or 12 mos? My impression is that, as of now, the research is based on periodic "snap shots" of a mother's supply and baby's intake; we may need several continous studies (you know, like continuous fetal monitoring!) to really see what is happening. Question: can a mother put another baby to breast and increase her supply enough to wet-nurse? I'm still pondering this idea that one can feed twins or triplets, that maybe the breast regulates in the first few weeks and permanently discards some extra milk-making cells while keeping others "off-line" but ready to pitch in. -Lisa Marasco, LLLL, IBCLC [log in to unmask]