Cote: you think directing users to kellymom is being a kellymom groupie. But it would not have been appropriate to dissect your post and show in detail why your advice was misleading - it would have derailed the thread and not helped the OP. It's fair enough , I think, to highlight a concern and then link to another website for more info. Kellymom - more than just one lactation consultant, BTW, and referenced so it is more than mere opinion - is adequate for a fairly basic correction to misinformation like that, for people who want to read a bit more away from the thread. I tried to be polite; you came back all offended and (a bit) rude, so you'll understand my own change of tone now, I am sure
Now - why does 'separating and squeezing' (your method of checking the baby is getting hindmilk) not give us any useful information about a baby's intake? Why on earth would anyone want to do this? Why would doing this tell you anything at all about the baby's well-being or nutrition?
Where to begin?
Ok. Babies do not need to 'drill down' into hindmilk.
A breast may have hindmilk ('hindmilk' = proportionately fattier milk) readily available to the baby, if the breast is not very full. This is because the fat content of breastmilk varies in proportion to the degree of emptiness of the breast.
Even if it is very full, an enthusiastically sucking baby and a mother with a quick letdown will enable fattier milk to reach the baby quickly.
You are suggesting (I think) that in the middle of a feed, the mother removes this enthusiastically sucking baby from the breast in order to squeeze the nipple herself and then judge from the colour and texture of the milk whether the baby is getting hindmilk? Even if you were certain that observation alone would tell you.
Or perhaps you check afterwards, when the baby has stopped sucking or takes a short break.
Why?
Does it tell you if the baby has had enough hindmilk? Does it tell you if the mouthful of milk the baby had before that one was hindmilk?
You are talking as if the milk available to the baby is always two discrete types of milk, and it just isn't.
In your earlier post you said the milk the OP's baby might be getting was problematic as it was watery and low in fat and that snacking could be an issue. I hope you'll accept that putting a baby on one side only, as you advised, would not be helpful, as it would cut down on the volume of milk made...and it is volume that is crucial to infant intake and indeed, milk supply. Many women will be just fine offering one side per feed only. In the OP's case, I think one sided feeding would be very risky.
Hope that's a bit clearer now.