As a mother breast feeds her baby, the milk changes throughout the day. Some of the changes help babies sleep at night. Four times of the day are indicated around the center image. The position of each of the components indicates when they are at their highest amounts in breast milk. The picture in the middle is “Mary Cassatt, 1898 – Louise nursing her child”. Compiled figure credit: Nancy R. Gough, BioSerendipity
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N. R. Gough, Signals in Night Time Breast Milk Help Babies Sleep. BioSerendipity (23 August 2019) https://www.bioserendipity.com/night-time-breast-milk-helps-babies-sleep/