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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 48, 1375-1386, Copyright © 1988 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Studies in human lactation: milk volumes in lactating women during the onset of lactation and full lactation

MC Neville, R Keller, J Seacat, V Lutes, M Neifert, C Casey, J Allen and P Archer
Department of Physiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.

After validation of test-weighing procedures milk volumes produced by 13 multiparous Caucasian women were followed longitudinally through the first year of lactation. All practiced exclusive breast-feeding for at least 5 mo. Milk transfer to the infant was low on days 1 and 2 and increased rapidly to 498 +/- 129 g/d (means +/- SD) on day 5 and then more slowly to 753 +/- 89 g/d during months 3-5. There was a characteristic milk volume for each mother-infant pair that was significantly related neither to milk yield on days 4-6 nor to birth weight. It was, however, strongly related to infant weight at 1 mo, suggesting that infant and/or maternal factors coming into play during the first month of life are strong determinants of subsequent milk transfer to the infant.




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