A lab analyzed three nursing moms' milk ? here?s what it found
by Joyce Slaton posted in Products
If you're breastfeeding or pumping, you may notice that the milk you put out changes from day to day: it may look creamier, or have different-colored tinges according to what you've eaten lately. But did you ever wonder if what's in the milk changes along with its looks" Or if the milk you're giving your baby has enough of everything he needs"
We did. So when Lactation Lab, a new California company that runs samples of breast milk through a testing process similar to the ones dairy farmers have done on their cows, offered to do an analysis of the nutrition and toxins in three of our writers? milk, we took them up on it. Note, this is not a sponsored post, though Lactation Lab did the testing for free. Here?s what happened.
Getting the milk to the lab
Lactation Lab mailed three test kits out to our bloggers Whitney Barthel, Becky Vieira, and Sabrina Garibian.
At the time of testing, Whitney was nursing a newborn, Becky was nursing a 1.5-year-old, and Sabrina was nursing a 2-month-old. Each mom pumped out enough milk to fill Lactation Lab?s 1-ounce test kit containers, which wasn't hard for Sabrina and Whitney, but Becky found it a little difficult to get the required ounce: "I'm 18 months in and not producing as much,? she says. ?We do our one big nursing session in the morning and I didn?t want to use all his milk for this. So I took a lactation booster and did some dry pumping for a few days prior to increase supply and w...
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