The idea of a breast milk microbiome, and of its importance, is only just beginning to take root. The numbers of bacteria in breast milk are much lower than in stool, the usual route to sample gut ...

Therese O'Sullivan has previously received funding from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation and the Department of Health Western Australia for a project on antenatal colostrum expressing. Many ...

A group of university researchers at Northwestern — including a nursing mother — have come up with a way to ease one of the most anxiety-producing dilemmas of early breastfeeding: How much milk is the ...

"I think the baby is hungry, we must consider top feed," this was me 24 hours postpartum. And everyone around me was terrified at this idea of choosing formula. But little did I know, my baby was ...