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Tag us in your photo or use #sdbreastfeeding for a chance to be featured! ⬇️

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YES, no matter how long you breastfed for! Not to mention time management, ability to read cues, teamwork, PATIENCE, perseverance....what else?!
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Breastfeeding👏🏽is👏🏽HARD👏🏽WORK👏🏽 We’re here for you! How can we help???
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📸 @liquidgoldlactation

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A photo showing droplets of breast milk fending off armies of harmful bacteria in Petri dishes is going viral on Facebook.⁣⁣⁣
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The photo, posted by a biology student in England, features nine Petri dishes completely colonized with the bacteria M. Luteus, except in the center, where tiny puddles of breast milk have created what looks like “moats” of protection around themselves.⁣⁣⁣
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The student, Vicky Green, said she had similar results with Petri dishes full of e.Coli and the dreaded anti-biotic resistant “super bug” MRSA.⁣⁣⁣
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“The white spots in the middle are discs soaked in two samples of breastmilk,” Green wrote in the caption of her post. “See the clear bit around the discs ― that’s where the proteins in the milk have inhibited the bacteria!”⁣⁣⁣
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An article from YourPediatrician.com explains how this is possible:⁣⁣⁣
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“About 80 percent of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses. Breast-fed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections, and German measles. Furthermore, mothers produce antibodies to whatever disease is present in their environment, making their milk custom-designed to fight the diseases their babies are exposed to as well.”⁣⁣⁣
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What’s even more impressive is that the samples of milk in the photos came from the mother of a 15-month-old and a 3-year-old, providing further evidence that breast milk continues to protect against illness long beyond infancy.⁣
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Super impressive right? Tag a mom who would be interested in this. #repost @milkymamallc

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DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 15th to be included in the printed version. Online listings only are accepted on a rolling basis. Email sdcbc@breastfeeding.org for more information! Join us in increasing access to breastfeeding resources for families in San Diego today, sign up or share in your networks!

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✨GIVEAWAY CLOSED✨ We are so happy to offer one local San Diego mama a free @sollybaby wrap in celebration of us reaching 1,000 followers! Thank you to all of our followers and supporters—we do all that we do for YOU 💜

All you have to do is like this post! Must be following @sdbreastfeeding 🥰 Tag a local SD mama to share the love!!
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*winner must be located in San Diego County. This giveaway is not sponsored by Instagram and ends on Sunday, 11/10 at 11:59 p.m. Good luck!

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Breastfeeding is a physical act between mother and baby, but absolutely involves the whole family. We love how this image shows exactly that. 🥰
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BTW we are so close to 1,000 followers on Instagram. Once we get there, we’ll be having a giveaway!!! 🎉
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📸 by local photographer @shilohcolleen of SD mama @raisingthefree

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🥛MILK SUPPLY
Imagine you and a friend are drinking water at a restaurant. You have a very small glass, and your friend has a large glass. You both want to drink a total of 24 ounces of water by the end of the night.
Now imagine two different scenarios with me:
#1: You and your friend both drink the same amount of water in the same amount of time. But because your glass is smaller, the waiter has to come fill it up much more frequently than your friend’s. Your waiter laughs and says that you are keeping him very busy with your frequent refills. Both you and your friend have drank your desired 24 ounces before you leave.
#2: You are drinking your water to satisfy your thirst at every moment that you want to drink it. The waiter comes to refill your glass every time you empty it. Your friend, on the other hand, is drinking their water in timed installments, and limiting their amount to certain increments. Because their glass is hardly being emptied, the waiter either doesn’t fill the glass at all, or can only add very small amounts each time he comes by your table. You end the night having drank your desired 24 ounces but your friend does not and blames the waiter on not filling their glass more often.

BREAST MILK PRODUCTION IS BASED ON TWO PRINCIPLES:
1) Storage capacity
2) Supply and demand

Adapted from Alicia Level via FB. Continue reading the full post on our FB page! It’s worth the read👌🏽

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