What’s in Breast Milk?
Breast milk is pretty amazing stuff! It’s designed just with a growing baby in mind, and mother nature tweaks the formula for each of the thousands of kinds of animals called mammals that feed their young with milk. Mammals include animals small as a mouse, big as a whale, fast as a cheetah, and slow as a sloth. Some mammals fly like bats, some have pouches like kangaroos, and some even still lay eggs like the platypus! And of course, this includes humans, too. Many pediatric and health organizations recommend feeding babies only breast milk for the first several months…
