Pregnancy tips Special Milk For Prematurity

It's amazing how our bodies adapt to challenging conditions. Here is an article that discusses how mothers with premature babies produce a type of specially enriched milk. Read more:

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From the article:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) - Mothers of premature babies produce a special milk that is better suited to developing an early-born baby's brain and nervous system than is the milk from women with full-term infants, according to a study released today by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Chemists from the Agriculture Department, working with a researcher from Georgetown University, said they found that the milk from mothers whose babies were delivered one to three months early had nearly twice as many long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids as the milk from mothers of full-term babies.

Joel Bitman, a chemist with the department's Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., said those acids were vital in the growth of brain cells and the formation of lining around nerve centers.