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WhistlingBeautiful

@LolaofLife

Global citizen of the Internet,Storyteller, Podcaster and Slayer of Food and Giants.❤️⭐ Na we dey roll 🎲 🎲, na God dey give us Double six

In the shadow of the Almighty Katılım Nisan 2010
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Dr. AK 🇮🇳@docakx·
The breast is not just feeding the baby. It is reading the baby. When a baby feeds at the breast, the same suckling action that draws milk out also pulls a small amount of the baby's saliva back into the nipple and into the milk ducts. Scientists call this "retrograde duct flow". This hypothesis was put forward by lactatiom biologists and they are gathering evidence through research - If the baby is sick, that backwashed saliva carries traces of the infecting pathogen into the mother's breast tissue. Her immune system detects it, identifies the threat, and begins manufacturing targeted antibodies. These then appear in the very next feed of milk delivered to the sick infant. Human studies have steadily supported this. Riskin et al. (2012), published in Pediatric Research, demonstrated that when nursing infants were ill, their mothers' milk showed a dramatic surge in white blood cells, particularly macrophages, along with raised levels of TNF-α, a key inflammatory signal. These levels fell back to normal once the baby recovered. Mothers of healthy babies showed no such changes. Hassiotou et al. (2013), in Clinical and Translational Immunology, confirmed that both maternal and infant infections trigger a rapid leukocyte response in breast milk. Then a landmark 2022 study in Nature provided the clearest mechanistic proof yet. It tracked a virus from an infected mouse pup's saliva, through the nipple, into the mother's milk ducts, and demonstrated a subsequent antibody surge in her milk. Taken together, the evidence describes a mother and infant in quiet, continuous biological dialogue through the breast. Illness whispered through saliva. Answered in medicine. Still remains a hypothesis but the evidence is piling up.
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learie@astrogeanie·
I honestly cannot stress this enough but please start living and enjoying your life. Your life is passing by daily and all you’re doing is working, paying bills, and overthinking stuff you can't change. Start taking trips and treating yourself. Have fun with this life. You only get one.
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Temitope@Bellebliss44·
@omoelele “Why are you wearing your babies yellow shirts? It causes jaundice o!” Me :
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I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?
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CooperBaggs 💰🍞@edgaralandough·
I recently heard someone say: "The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them." I can't see it any other way now.
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WhistlingBeautiful@LolaofLife·
Lara Kay Couture got a wedding invitation she wasn't supposed to receive. She went anyway. THE WEDDING CRASHER is out now. 14 chapters. Full Lagos chaos. And an ending that will sit with you. 🖤 amazon.com/dp/B0GX32RJ1T
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Jola
Jola@Jollz·
Told my tailor I don’t want corset so she put “boning” in the outfit. Now it has carried my breast to meet my neck.
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