Dear Brenda,
       Yes, I heard this, too, I think at a conference probably 2 or 3 years
ago.  (I lose all track of time!)  I don't know of the references to support
it, but it makes sense.  After all, if a baby picks up yeast in his mouth as he
comes through the birth canal, he can transfer that to mom.  It can enter the
nipple pores and become ductal yeast.  So other "germs" could enter that way
and stimulate an immune response in the mother.  What I heard ( or read
somewhere?) is that these germs stimulate the breast tissue itself to produce those
antibodies, before the rest of the mother's immune system launches an attack.
In other words, the antibodies could be found in her breastmilk, even though
they couldn't yet be found in her blood.
       Dee

Dee Kassing, BS, MLS, IBCLC
Collinsville, Illinois, in central USA

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