TY - JOUR
T1 - Infant self-regulation of breast milk intake
AU - Dewey, K. G.
AU - Lonnerdal, B.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - In an experimental study to determine whether augmentation of maternal milk supply affects infant intake, 18 mothers of exclusively breast-fed infants stimulated milk supply by daily expression of extra milk for 2 weeks. Infant milk intake was recorded before, during and after this expression phase. All but 4 mothers increased milk production by >73 g/day over baseline, with an average increase of 124 g/day. On the average, the 14 infants of mothers who increased milk production took in significantly more milk immediately following the expression phase (849 vs. 732 g/day), but about half of them returned to near baseline levels of milk intake after 1-2 weeks. Net change in infant intake at the end of the study was positively correlated with infant weight-for-length (r=0.59) and age (r=0.58), and was unrelated to baseline milk intake (r=-0.06). Therefore, the wide range in breast milk volume in well-nourished populations is due more to variation in infant 'demand' than to inadequacy of milk production.
AB - In an experimental study to determine whether augmentation of maternal milk supply affects infant intake, 18 mothers of exclusively breast-fed infants stimulated milk supply by daily expression of extra milk for 2 weeks. Infant milk intake was recorded before, during and after this expression phase. All but 4 mothers increased milk production by >73 g/day over baseline, with an average increase of 124 g/day. On the average, the 14 infants of mothers who increased milk production took in significantly more milk immediately following the expression phase (849 vs. 732 g/day), but about half of them returned to near baseline levels of milk intake after 1-2 weeks. Net change in infant intake at the end of the study was positively correlated with infant weight-for-length (r=0.59) and age (r=0.58), and was unrelated to baseline milk intake (r=-0.06). Therefore, the wide range in breast milk volume in well-nourished populations is due more to variation in infant 'demand' than to inadequacy of milk production.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 3564971
AN - SCOPUS:0022969465
VL - 75
SP - 893
EP - 898
JO - Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
JF - Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
SN - 0803-5253
IS - 6
ER -