{"id":88091,"date":"2019-02-22T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding"},"modified":"2019-02-22T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:22:24","slug":"breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding","title":{"rendered":"Breastmilk microbiome linked to method of feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea that breastmilk has a microbiome (or microbiota)\u2014a community of bacteria living within it\u2014is relatively new and has sparked debate about where breastmilk bacteria come from. Some scientists believe breastmilk bacteria originate in the mother\u2019s gut while others believe they are transferred to the mother from the infant\u2019s mouth during breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p>New research from the CHILD Cohort Study\u2014an ongoing birth cohort study involving thousands of Canadian children and their families\u2014has shed some light on this question by highlighting the importance of the infant\u2019s mouth as a source of breastmilk bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published today in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-host-microbe\/fulltext\/S1931-3128(19)30049-6\">Cell Host &amp; Microbe<\/a><\/em>, found that among the many factors examined, the method of breastfeeding\u2014whether mothers fed their infants directly at the breast or fed them pumped breastmilk from a bottle\u2014was the most consistent factor associated with the milk microbiota composition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.umanitoba.ca\/breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding\/\">http:\/\/news.umanitoba.ca\/breastmilk-microbiome-linked-to-method-of-feeding\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that breastmilk has a microbiome (or microbiota)\u2014a community of bacteria living within it\u2014is relatively new and has sparked debate about where breastmilk bacteria come from. Some scientists believe breastmilk bacteria originate in the mother\u2019s gut while others believe they are transferred to the mother from the infant\u2019s mouth during breastfeeding. New research from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}