Breast milk is the only food your baby needs until about 4 to 6 months of age.

How do I know if my baby is getting enough breast milk?

I do want my baby to get the benefits of breast milk, though.

Lead can also be passed to a baby through the mother's breast milk.

Your baby continues to get health benefits from breast milk past the first year.

After 4 months of age, your baby will probably not get enough iron from breast milk alone.

There are many reasons a mother may not produce enough breast milk.

However, all of them would become evident in your breast milk.

Women use it to increase the flow of breast milk.

Research has shown that there is no better food than breast milk for a baby's first year of life.

Other sources say that human milk is necessary for fairy children to survive.

It has been found in maternal bovine and human milk.

Formula is intended to be as close to human milk as possible.

All formulas lack antibodies and other ingredients found in human milk.

If a child is not on human milk it should be on formula.

It is extremely high in protein and fat, containing higher levels than cow or human milk.

There is also the potential for release of casomorphins from human milk.

It was first discovered in the 1950s in human milk.

The protein in human milk is well absorbed and used, especially by the infant's brain.

However, there is an argument to be made that they may not get nutrition as good or the benefits of human milk.