10 Badass Superpowers Everybody Has

7. Breast Milk Is Magical

Breast milk actually changes its composition to meet the individual nutritional needs of the baby(ies) feeding from the breast. For example, if mom is nursing a toddler (who is more prone to short little "drive by" nursings) the child gets more bang for their buck with a full session's worth of proteins, fats and vitamins in their one minute fly-by the same as a three month old gets in their 25 minute session.

As they get older, the quantity of vitamins, fats and proteins changes as well to meet their individual needs. This is even true if mom is tandem nursing two babies of different ages: the milk actually customizes itself to ensure they both get exactly what they need, and the amount of milk she makes is dependent entirely on how much stimulation she gets (ie. the more the baby nurses at the breast, the better supplied they are. This is why using bottles and pacifiers mucks up someone's supply: the baby wastes all their suckling needs somewhere else).

Even cooler, the milk makes antibodies for the viruses mom and baby are exposed to and fighting off. It's like a built-in vaccine that is constantly being updated against the latest bugs. This is the main reason why breastfed babies are better equipped to combat both short term illness and long term disease (like respiratory illness, asthma, allergies, etc).

And it comes in a real pretty container, too.