Mallory Smothers is a nursing mother from Arkansas who a few days ago uploaded a picture of two of her breast milk bags to her facebook page, exactly the cover photo of this article. So far we could think that it is a fashion, similar to the so-called #breastfeedingselfie (take a selfie while you breastfeed your son), something that started with the cause of not being ashamed of something so natural and that it has become a vindictive movement in the networks, but no, we are not facing a new fashion of selfies of milk in the bag, but of something much more incredible, something that had a lot to do with the appreciable difference to the naked eye in color of the two bags. But, Why has a picture of two mother's milk bags gone viral? Well, for what that difference in color means.
Mallory commented on his facebook that he nurses his daughter every two hours approximately and that milk is not pumped until the next morning, but that morning he noticed that his daughter had risen with a lot of cough, mucus and that she was very irritable. This in the world of parents is called "cold", something nothing strange for the time we are in, so it did not give more importance.
What left her astonished was when she started pumping her milk and saw that it was much more viscous than usual and a colostrum-like color, that kind of first milk that newborns drink, rich in antibodies.
Then he recalled an article that he had read long ago in a scientific journal that talked about a study that concluded that breast milk was not a linear product, but varied according to the needs of the infant. This was thanks to the fact that the glands in the mother's nipples were able to analyze the baby's saliva and change the composition of the milk according to the presence or absence of certain substances. Moreover, according to this study, we could know the general condition of the baby by analyzing the presence of leukocytes in the mother's milk.
So he could tie up the ends, the milk that had just been taken out (right in the photo) had been adjusted by his own body for the needs of his daughter and was loaded with the necessary antibodies to fight his cold.
I don't like to talk about superfoods, I don't think there are any, but it seems that breast milk is the ideal food for the first stage of our life.
Can you imagine a day in which some sensor in our body indicates the food we should eat and the closest place to acquire it? Well, nature discovered it much earlier.
