diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9b205245..4bccf514 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ console.log(query);
 
 Testing environments that don't support Webpack require additional configuration. For [Jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/) use [jest-transform-graphql](https://github.com/remind101/jest-transform-graphql).
 
-#### Support for multiple operations
+#### Support for multiple operations per file
 
-With the webpack loader, you can also import operations by name:
+With the webpack loader, the default export from a graphql file contains all the operations found in
+the original file.  Typically a GraphQL client library expects to find only one operation, so if
+you want to put multiple operations in the same file, you should import individual operations
+by name:
 
 In a file called `query.gql`:
 ```graphql
@@ -136,7 +139,7 @@ And in your JavaScript:
 ```javascript
 import { MyQuery1, MyQuery2 } from 'query.gql'
 ```
-
+ 
 ### Warnings
 
 This package will emit a warning if you have multiple fragments of the same name. You can disable this with:
diff --git a/loader.js b/loader.js
index 4ceac4d3..3c7a81e1 100644
--- a/loader.js
+++ b/loader.js
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ module.exports = function(source) {
 
       return newDoc;
     }
-
-    module.exports = doc;
+    
+    module.exports = Object.assign({default: doc}, doc);
     `
 
     for (const op of doc.definitions) {
diff --git a/test/graphql.js b/test/graphql.js
index 726e3918..4e4f8553 100644
--- a/test/graphql.js
+++ b/test/graphql.js
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ const assert = require('chai').assert;
       eval(jsSource);
 
       assert.deepEqual(module.exports.definitions, module.exports.Q1.definitions);
+      assert.deepEqual(module.exports.default.definitions, module.exports.Q1.definitions);
     });
 
     it('parses multiple queries through webpack loader', () => {
@@ -81,6 +82,9 @@ const assert = require('chai').assert;
       assert.equal(module.exports.Q2.kind, 'Document');
       assert.equal(module.exports.Q1.definitions.length, 1);
       assert.equal(module.exports.Q2.definitions.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(module.exports.default.definitions.length, 2);
+      assert.equal(module.exports.default.definitions[0], module.exports.Q1.definitions[0]);
+      assert.equal(module.exports.default.definitions[1], module.exports.Q2.definitions[0]);
     });
 
     it('parses fragments with variable definitions', () => {
@@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ const assert = require('chai').assert;
 
       gql.disableExperimentalFragmentVariables()
     });
-    
+
     // see https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-tag/issues/168
     it('does not nest queries needlessly in named exports', () => {
       const jsSource = loader.call({ cacheable() {} }, `