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Here is another use for breastmilk – testing for breast cancer. And if you are nursing or are planning to in the coming year, you might just consider volunteering for this research program.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are looking volunteers who:
are breastfeeding or pumping breastmilk
who have had a breast biopsy previously or who [...]
I didn’t want to do it. I really wanted to hold out until 6 months to introduce solid foods. Breast milk has all the nutrients she needs right now, and she’s growing up fast enough as it is. Why rush things?
But after sleeping five to seven hour stretches for weeks, Ashley woke up hungry every [...]
Milk always came very easily from my breasts when the time came for my baby to latch on. There was more than one instance where the milk flowed out like a mini faucet and my husband stared transfixed while I giggled at the amazing things my body could do. On the other hand, [...]
A gastronomist in the Swiss city of Winterthur announced earlier this week that he will serve traditional Swiss dishes in his restaurant that will be special and unique. He will substitute the usual cream or fresh milk in the recipes with breastmilk. He actually started advertising for breast milk donors.
His announcement sparked heated discussions in [...]
Two groups of researchers from two dairy countries report about the additional benefits of human milk that other dairy substitutes cannot provide. Swiss and Australian researchers identified special proteins that can help fight gastrointestinal (GI) infection by removing dangerous microbes (e.g. bacteria and viruses) in the GI tract of infants. These two sugar-based proteins called [...]
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