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When Dr. Katie Hinde began studying breast milk, most scientists treated it as simple nutrition.
Calories, proteins, fat nothing more.
She looked closer and saw a language.
Katie discovered that milk changes depending on the baby’s needs.
A mother nursing a son produces milk richer in energy.
A mother nursing a daughter creates milk with more immune cells.
If a baby falls ill, the milk’s composition shifts within hours, an invisible conversation between
body and child.
Her research revealed something profound:
Breast milk is not a passive food. It’s a biological message system.
Dr. Hinde’s work redefined maternal science and exposed how modern medicine overlooked
women’s biology for centuries.
While labs raced to map the human genome, almost no one had studied the most ancient form
of nourishment — a mother’s milk.
Today, her discoveries are reshaping how hospitals, pediatricians, and policymakers understand
infant health.
As she often says, “Every drop tells a story between generations.”
Dr. Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She decoded the conversation that built humanity itself.

Slow and still lacking!! How long have we known this???

ACOG PUBLICATIONS
ACOG Clinical Practice Update: An Update to Clinical Guidance for Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping After Birth in Preterm Neonates
Author Information
Obstetrics & Gynecology 146(3):p 442-444, September 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000006020

ACOG Clinical Practice Update: An Update to Clinical Guidance for Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping After Birth in Preterm Neonates, 9/2025:
•Defer umbilical cord clamping for at least 60 seconds in preterm neonates born at less than 37 weeks of gestation who are deemed not to require immediate resuscitation at birth.
•In preterm neonates born at 28 0/7–36 6/7 weeks of gestation who do not receive deferred cord clamping, umbilical cord milking is a reasonable alternative to immediate cord clamping to improve neonatal hematologic outcomes.
ACOG CO 814:
•In term infants, delayed umbilical cord clamping increases hemoglobin levels at birth and improves iron stores in the first several months of life, which may have a favorable effect on developmental outcomes. •Delayed umbilical cord clamping is associated with significant neonatal benefits in preterm infants, including improved transitional circulation, better establishment of red blood cell volume, decreased need for blood transfusion, and lower incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis and intraventricular hemorrhage. •Given the benefits to most newborns and concordant with other professional organizations, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends a delay in umbilical cord clamping in vigorous term and preterm infants for at least 30–60 seconds after birth.
•There is a small increase in the incidence of jaundice that requires phototherapy in term infants undergoing delayed umbilical cord clamping. Consequently, obstetrician–gynecologists and other obstetric care providers adopting delayed umbilical cord clamping in term infants should ensure that mechanisms are in place to monitor and treat neonatal jaundice.
•Delayed umbilical cord clamping does not increase the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.

ACOG PUBLICATIONS
ACOG Clinical Practice Update: An Update to Clinical Guidance for Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping After Birth in Preterm Neonates
Author Information
Obstetrics & Gynecology 146(3):p 442-444, September 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000006020

Abstract
This Clinical Practice Update provides guidance related to management of the umbilical cord at birth based on recently published data regarding short, medium, and long deferral of cord clamping; cord milking; and immediate cord clamping in preterm neonates. In this document, the terms “deferred” and “delayed” are used interchangeably as they relate to management of the cord at birth. This document updates Committee Opinion No. 814, Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping After Birth (Obstet Gynecol 2020;136:e100–6).

The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.

The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.

Read more:
https://centerforbreastfeeding.org/cochrane-review-2025

🎉 Big news! I’m now partnered with Lactation Consultants of America — which means Mothering Arts clients can now access in-network insurance coverage for lactation visits!

Appointments will be booked through the LCA system, and their team will handle billing support — so I can focus fully on your lactation care. 💕

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In Vietnam, this image of a grandmother breastfeeding her grandchild is more than extraordinary, it’s part of a long history of shared nourishment.

Across cultures and centuries, communities have practiced cross-nursing and wet-nursing:
✨ In times when a mother was ill, passed away, or simply needed support, another woman, sometimes even a grandmother, stepped in to feed the baby.
✨ In Vietnam and other parts of Asia, women have been known to relactate, meaning they can restart or continue milk production, even later in life, when there is a baby in need.
✨ In Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Indigenous communities worldwide, shared nursing was seen as a form of survival, kinship, and solidarity.

Breastfeeding has never been just one mother and one child.

It has often been a communal act of love, protection, and survival.

This photo reminds us that human milk is not only food, it’s medicine, comfort, and a living connection that binds families and generations together.

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

I believe these women, I have personally heard similar things. Mind blown 🤯 Did any health care providers talk to you in this way?#endobstetricviolence #womenhealth

Latched that whole time #laughtoday #babylaughs