How the composition of breast milk changes - photo

Yes, we again return to this eternal dispute. You can tell each other until hoarseness that it is not wise to breastfeed a child for more than six months. You can generally argue that the mixture meets the needs of the baby even better than the mother's milk. But here's another argument in the box for supporters of natural feeding. Mallory Smothers is the mother of a charming baby named Ellie. And yes, she feeds the baby girl. You will not believe it, but this process is even Mallory's feat of reading scientific research. And that's why.Photo: @mallory.cunningham One evening Mallory, as usual, expressed her milk before bed. “Ellie wakes up at night for a supplement every two hours. Therefore, the next time I pump only in the morning, when we are completely awake, ”says my mother. This night was the same as usual. With one exception: at three o'clock, Mallory noticed that Ellie was getting wet, sneezing and capricious. In the morning, the woman expressed milk again, put the bag in the refrigerator next to the evening one, and then noticed something strange. Evening milk looked very different: morning milk was more yellow and thicker - like colostrum, which is usually produced only in the first days of a child's life. This is where Mallory reached into for articles on milk.Photo: @mallory.cunningham A young mother found out that milk is not just calories. It turns out that it is able to adapt to the needs of the child even after it turns six months old. Kid has a cold? Milk will provide it with natural "antibiotics"! As the family doctor later explained to her, the baby's saliva, getting on the mother's nipples during feeding, causes the milk composition to change. The mother's organism analyzes the health of the baby by its saliva. Cool, right? And, if the baby has a cold, the mother's body starts to produce more white blood cells to help the baby cope with the disease. All this is confirmed by a considerable number of clinical and immunological studies. But for Mallory it was news: "The possibilities of the human body do not cease to amaze me," Mallory wrote under the photograph with two packets of milk. And not one of them was struck by such metamorphosis: the picture reposted almost 80,000 times. In the comments there were specialists who confirmed: milk is really capable of providing the child with everything necessary. Including - to support immunity. And up to six months, the antibodies contained in breast milk protect the baby from infectious diseases. If, of course, Mom did inoculations. So it's hard not to agree with Mallory. Are not we, mothers, a miracle? Read on: