Breastfeeding is special, beautiful and convenient – just like our free ebook. This interactive, digital guide will take you through each key stage of your milk-production journey
It’s amazing that your body can grow a baby. And it’s equally amazing that it also creates a food supply perfectly tailored to her needs.
Packed with groundbreaking science, fascinating facts, stunning photos and animated graphics, The Amazing Science of Mother’s Milk takes you through the key stages of your breastfeeding journey. Through pregnancy, the first few hours, and far beyond, our informative ebook explains exactly what’s happening inside your breasts and why mother’s milk is the ideal food for babies – from premature newborn to lively toddler.
Your amazing milk
From the moment you become pregnant, your body starts growing an entire new human. And within a month it also starts developing an amazing new feeding system. Scroll down to read more…
Not only is your breast milk packed with proteins, minerals, vitamins and fat in the exact balance your baby needs, it’s also full of thousands of protective agents, growth factors and cells that fight infections, help your baby’s brain develop, and lay foundations for her future health – and yours too.
It’s made to measure for your baby, at every stage of her development from newborn to toddler, and changes according to her day-to-day needs.
In fact, we still don’t know all the amazing qualities of breast milk. But teams of researchers are busy studying it, making discoveries, and devising new methods for investigating and analysing all the things it contains.1
For instance, did you know?
Breast milk is more than just food: during the first few weeks it protects your fragile newborn and starts to develop her digestive and immune systems.
We’re still discovering new hormones in breast milk that appear to help protect against obesity in later life.
Breast milk contains many types of live cells – including stem cells, which have the remarkable ability to develop into different kinds of cells.
When either you or your baby become ill, your body produces breast milk containing more antibodies and white blood cells to help fight the infection.
Breastfeeding means both you and your baby are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Studies suggest children who are breastfed as babies do better at school.
Your breast milk really is everyday amazing.
However, there are a lot of out-of-date views and information on breastfeeding and breast milk out there. We hope this ebook will help you navigate your milk-production journey and understand the proven benefits of your breast milk. You can find links to or footnotes detailing all the studies we’ve consulted along the way, so you know these facts can be trusted and can find out more if you want to.
Post time: Aug-23-2022