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Fascinating article on normal breastfeeding
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Healthy, exclusively breastfed 1- to 6-month-old infants consume 0 to 240 g of milk between 6 and 18 times during 24 hours, with 64% of infants breastfeeding 1 to 3 times at night. The right breast usually produces significantly more milk than the left, and the volume of milk consumed at each breastfeeding is related to the volume of milk available in the breast and the time of day. The fat content of breast milk varies between mothers (22.3*61.6 g/L) and within and between breastfeedings, but the amount of fat consumed by the infant is independent of the frequency of breastfeeding. One of the researchers is *that* Peter Hartmann, and the ABA recruited the volunteers. It's nice to find out that the AVERAGE number of breastfeeds in 24 hours is 11! That "6-12 times a day" never sounded right to me. http://tinyurl.com/rkv3g -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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Fascinating article on normal breastfeeding
Chookie wrote:
One of the researchers is *that* Peter Hartmann, and the ABA recruited the volunteers. It's nice to find out that the AVERAGE number of breastfeeds in 24 hours is 11! That "6-12 times a day" never sounded right to me. The 11 "breastfeedings" is defining one side as one breastfeeding. There were 4-13 "meals" per day (average 7.9). From the paper: "A meal was defined as an unpaired breastfeeding, or 2 paired breastfeedings, or 3 clustered breastfeedings." Lara |
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Fascinating article on normal breastfeeding
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(Lara) wrote: Chookie wrote: One of the researchers is *that* Peter Hartmann, and the ABA recruited the volunteers. It's nice to find out that the AVERAGE number of breastfeeds in 24 hours is 11! That "6-12 times a day" never sounded right to me. The 11 "breastfeedings" is defining one side as one breastfeeding. There were 4-13 "meals" per day (average 7.9). From the paper: "A meal was defined as an unpaired breastfeeding, or 2 paired breastfeedings, or 3 clustered breastfeedings." Well, my babies generally only feed from one breast per meal! Note, however, that about half all the meals *were* from one side only. And that's interesting in itself; there is a lot of stuff out there which implies that feeding from both breasts at a feed is typical. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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Fascinating article on normal breastfeeding
"Chookie" wrote in message ... From the conclusion: Healthy, exclusively breastfed 1- to 6-month-old infants consume 0 to 240 g of milk between 6 and 18 times during 24 hours, with 64% of infants breastfeeding 1 to 3 times at night. The right breast usually produces significantly more milk than the left, and the volume of milk consumed at each breastfeeding is related to the volume of milk available in the breast and the time of day. The fat content of breast milk varies between mothers (22.3*61.6 g/L) and within and between breastfeedings, but the amount of fat consumed by the infant is independent of the frequency of breastfeeding. One of the researchers is *that* Peter Hartmann, and the ABA recruited the volunteers. It's nice to find out that the AVERAGE number of breastfeeds in 24 hours is 11! That "6-12 times a day" never sounded right to me. http://tinyurl.com/rkv3g How very interesting. I read over it very quickly as all the kids were up and I have to convert the grams, lol. It validated a lot of things that a breastfeeding mom (or at least this one!) feels/thinks though, which is great! -- Nikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 |
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