Lactation and breastfeeding is the normal behavior and
food for human mothers and babies.
Not exact matches
Mothers» milk is considered the most perfect
food on the planet
for human consumption due to its ideal nutritional content and immune boosting compounds.
In order to offer
human milk to you today, and
for the milk to be given the status of
food, the milk has been screened, pasteurized and tested, and is being offered by
Mothers Milk Bank — a donor
human milk agency...
«A
mothers» own milk is the superior food for premature infants, and when a mother can not provide, donor human milk is the next best thing — it is truly life - saving,» says Peter Untalan, MD, a neonatologist and president of the board of trustees, The Mothers» Milk Bank at
mothers» own milk is the superior
food for premature infants, and when a
mother can not provide, donor
human milk is the next best thing — it is truly life - saving,» says Peter Untalan, MD, a neonatologist and president of the board of trustees, The
Mothers» Milk Bank at
Mothers» Milk Bank at Austin.
I think most mom's will agree that breastfeeding doesn't make them feel very sexy, I mean some
mothers have even said it feels a lot like being a cow, being constantly milked, essentially a
food source
for another, smaller,
human being.
In the policy statement, «Breastfeeding and the Use of
Human Milk,» published in the March 2012 issue of Pediatrics (published online Feb. 27), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reaffirms its recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding
for about the first six months of a baby's life, followed by breastfeeding in combination with the introduction of complementary
foods until at least 12 months of age, and continuation of breastfeeding
for as long as mutually desired by
mother and baby.
Its unfair to infants and unfair to
mothers to force them to remove themselves from their infants like nesting eagles to go hunt
for food rather than as
humans where
food can be brought to her by her mate, or by mate substitutes.
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Meaning that, barring any physical difficulties, babies are born ready to breastfeed; the delivery of the placenta signals the
mother's breasts to produce milk to feed, the
mother's body biologically responds to birth by producing milk, and
human milk is (usually) the perfectly formulated
food biologically
for a
human baby.
Recent studies suggest that
human milk, and particularly the infant's own
mother's milk, may be the best
food for all babies.
Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize
Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of
human nutrition and Healthy
Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader
for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional
food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk
for early preterm birth.
Human babies,
for example, show interest in whatever
foods their
mothers eat when nursing because the
foods» aromas are passed on through breast milk.
«It's not like
human mothers preparing meals
for their kids, offering them
food and letting the kids eat first,» says Silk.
Mothers» milk is considered the most perfect
food on the planet
for human consumption due to its ideal nutritional content and immune boosting compounds.
Any
food that is not a fruit or a vegetable with exception of
mother's milk as a baby is not 100 % fit
for human consumption.
Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy
mother has 50 - 60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical
for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in
human milk supplies an infant with close to six times the amount most adults consume from
food.13 In some cultures, a new
mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork
for at least a month after birth.
These toxic
foods are also fed to animals, who in turn concentrate them, as
humans do,
for example, in a
mother's milk.
Animal - based diary is not
human food; it's baby
food / calf
food, stolen from
mother cows»; milk meant
for their calves.
And what would be best
food for us
humans after we stop consuming our
mothers breast milk?
Human breastmilk from a well nourished
mother is the perfect
food for baby.
Interestingly, just like
human mothers, dogs are actually attracted to new
foods during pregnancy that they might not have cared
for before.
Taking into consideration that puppies and kittens are typically going into the care of
humans once they are old enough and not scavenging
for food on their own, it still seems only logical that they would remain in their
mother's care until they are 6 to 8 weeks old at the very least.