6/15/96 Dear All LactNetters, I will be leaving later this week for two weeks vacation with my 11 yr old son and his best friend, also an 11 yr old boy. We will be visting hot and muggy South Carolina but plan to relax and fish every day possible in my father's fresh water ponds, visit local swamp wildlife preserves, eat lots of corn on the cob, watermelon, fresh tomatoes off the vine, sleep in late if we wish, and generally relax and have fun. Can hardly wait. I will be going NO MAIL today in preparation for this trip. Before I leave, I wanted to thank those of you who wrote re my suggestions about oversupply. I will e-mail you directly ASAP. Those of you who wrote about oversupply to all LactNetters, thanks for your input also. This is a special area of interest to me. As one of you suggested, it is also possible that the mother compensates for a poorly fixed (latched) baby by producing large quanties of foremilk. Woolridge (Chloe Fisher's colleague) suggests this possibility in a chapter of BREASTFEEDING: BIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE by Patricia Stuart-Macadam and Katherine A. Dettwyler (Where are you Kathy? Haven't seen your name lately on LactNet.) The theory proposed is intriguing and may very well be a portion of the answer. What is intriguing is that the overwhelming majority of the 140 mother-baby dyads that I am writing a description of needed corrections/adjustments in positioning/latching techniques. However, even with correct positioning and latch-on, I have observed babies back of the areoal at MER to feed on the nipple (this too was a common observation). There are many pieces to the puzzle of oversupply and I would LOVE to hear all input on this. Therefore, please cc any posts to LactNet to my personal e-mail address listed below. Much thanks. Anna Utter [log in to unmask]