See what happens to breast milk when your baby gets sick
by Carolyn Robertson posted in Parenting
We know all about the many benefits of breastfeeding. Research suggests that nursing boosts immunity, protects against allergies, lowers the risk of SIDS and more. Anectdotal evidence says it may help moms shed the baby weight too, although that one is up for debate.
The point is, breast milk is pretty incredible stuff. New mom Paige Peterson's recent Facebook post proves that in a jaw-dropping way.
Paige, who is mom to daughter Raina, shared a photo of two bags of her frozen breast milk. The milk on the left is quite pale in color while the one on the right has an almost yellow hue.
Paige offers an explanation for the difference between the two bags, writing, ?Raina tested positive for flu this past weekend. I didn't believe the nurse when she told me because she hasn't had any symptoms of flu that I have noticed. The frozen milk on the left is from 2 weeks ago. The frozen milk on the right is from this past weekend when her swab came back positive. Notice the change in color" My breast milk created antibodies to fight off any infections that Raina may have had. I never gave her Tamiflu. THIS is why I breastfeed!? It seems almost unbelievable, but science backs up Paige's theory about the superpowers of breast milk.
?A baby, when they're nursing at the breast, their mouth and saliva exposes the breast itself to what baby has been exposed to," explains Rachel Miller, a registered nurse who works at South Carolina's Pied...
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