Right now, you’re carrying a microscopic hand-me-down from your mom that you’ve had since the moment you were born: The microbiome. We get a mouthful of this diverse teeny tiny community of bacteria ...

Share on Pinterest A new study shows that breast milk proteins help build a healthy gut microbiome in newborns. Westend61/Getty Images Breast milk contains essential nutrients, vitamins, and hormones ...

Most conversations about breast milk tend to focus on topics like nutrients, antibodies and bonding time rather than bacteria. But it turns out that human milk carries its own tiny community of ...

Babies who missed out on their mothers’ gut bacteria because they were born by Caesarean section receive more bacteria from their mother’s milk, if they are breastfed, compared with breastfed babies ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks old, he screamed when he ate and wouldn’t gain ...

"I think the baby is hungry, we must consider top feed," this was me 24 hours postpartum. And everyone around me was terrified at this idea of choosing formula. But little did I know, my baby was ...