Another thought on the Vietnamese mother of twins in the NICU...

What about experiments that demonstrate that her milk is doing what it
needs to do. For example, an IBCLC (or nurse or ...) can show a mother how
her milk has:

1. Fat in it (by allowing it to separate out)
2. Digestive enzymes (by adding it to baby rice cereal and watching what
happens)
3. Solids in it (by allowing it to dry on a piece of filter paper and
comparing how it looks with a piece of filter paper that was just dampened
with water)
4. Antibacterial, anitviral, antifungal components by showing slides of a
pathogen under a microscope before and after exposure to breastmilk

There are probably more demonstrations that can be done, too. Sometimes
seeing is believing. It doesn't matter whether you and I would need a
particular piece of information to believe that milk is good. If a mother
benefits from kitchen science with human milk, why not engage in it?!

Cynthia

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS Clinical Psychology
(Breastfeeding mother, advocate, independent [cross-cultural] researcher
and author; LLL Leader and Research Associate in the LLLI Publications
Department; and former psychotherapist currently busy nurturing her own
little one.)
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