Hooray for Chemical and Engineering News!

[riversong]

My husband is a chemical engineer and gets this magazine. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/ Check out the cover photo. It's not even a tiny infant bfing. That baby looks to be around a year old.

The cover story is all about how scientists are studying breastmilk to understand how it nourishes and protects babies so perfectly. Here's a quote from Unraveling Breastmilk, "It is the ideal evolutionary model for what nourishment should be." Awesome. I've really grown to like this magazine for many reasons. And I'm not an engineer.

[cndnveggie]

I was just coming to post this - so cool! I picked up our mail today and had to do a double take - at first I thought my latest issue of Mothering magazine had arrived, but then realized it was the cover of Chemical and Engineering News! Wow!

You can read the article here...

So awesome to see a breastfeeding baby on the cover of a science magazine!

[ASusan]

VERY interesting article. Brings together a lot of disparate things I knew about breastmilk (and gut bacteria, in particular), giving it a nice scientific context. Of course, most of what I know WRT gut bacteria, I learned here at MDC.

[G8P4]

GREAT article, thanks so much for posting it....

[Onemagicmummy]

what i like about it is i actuayl understand some of the terminology. i did 1/2 of a HEFC (the course i need to do before i can do nursing/midwifery at uni) in 2007 but quit half way as i was preg with DD2 and couldnt concentrate on it but what i did learn means i sort of understand what they are talking about. gonna read the whole thing later.

its interesting

Kiz

[MonkeysRUs]

Interesting article, thanks for posting!

Does anyone have access to the related articles "Serotonin Regulates Lactation" and "A Mouthful Of Evidence" (listed in the top right hand corner of the page the article is on)? I'd love to read them, but you have to be a member.

[Claire and Boys]

Much still remains to be understood about how many of milk's natural components are synthesized and delivered, how synthesis is controlled, and the effects of the mother's diet on the final product. "It is a remarkable fluid," German emphasizes. "It's extremely embarrassing how little we still know about it."

So true, even though the formula companies still claim their formulas are "close to breastmilk"...

[BakerALM]

really cool article!
love this quote...

"It is a remarkable fluid," German emphasizes. "It's extremely embarrassing how little we still know about it."