As I posted before when we discussed this, there was an article in a LLLI
publication about an English study showing that baby's feeding stimulated
the antibody repose.  If a baby is exposed to a pathogen (even if mother
isn't there) feeding at the breast will send the "message" through the
nipple and mother will produce antibodies to the offender.

I read that long before I knew that I would ever need to cite the reference.

The same saliva action was considered responsible for the adaptability of
the milk composition to the specific baby for as long as she fed at the
breast.  I would love for the study to be repeated and to appear in a
"peer-reviewed" journal today.  With Peter Hartman's conclusion that babies
don't keep increasing their intake as once expected, maybe he or his
cohorts will be interested in this study too.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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