“Why Breastfeeding is Best…for Everyone!”<\/a><\/p>\n “Milk Hoarder”<\/a><\/p>\n “Beginning Breastfeeding”<\/a><\/p>\n “Normalizing Nursing”<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>“Breaking the Bottle Norm”<\/a><\/p>\n “Medicinal Milk’<\/a><\/p>\n “Milk Drunk”<\/a><\/p>\n And I briefly touched on the composition of breastmilk in\u00a0<\/span>“Too Much of a Good Thing”<\/a>\u00a0and while I\u2019ve known about hindmilk and foremilk differences, it\u2019s sometimes a hard thing to understand without SEEING it, so here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n The ring around the top is the fat (my milk is very lean, as noted in “My Children are so Dense!”<\/a>\u00a0 and most breastmilk will probably have a much larger proportion of fat).\u00a0 The middle part is the hindmilk which is the milk baby receives the second half of the feed and is the thicker, fattier milk.\u00a0 The bottom, clearer portion is the foremilk which is the thirst-quenching,\u00a0waterier milk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s important to know, though, that there is not REALLY two different types of milk. \u00a0Kellymom.com (a great breastfeeding resource) uses the great analogy of turning on a faucet: When you want hot water from the tap, it usually starts cold and gradually gets warmer until it is hot.\u00a0 Breastmilk is the same, the milk at the beginning is waterier and it gets denser and fattier as the feed goes on.<\/p>\n Hindmilk is not better than foremilk, or vice versa, baby needs both to grow and be healthy and this can be achieved by emptying each breast fully before changing.\u00a0 This can be achieved by letting baby nurse on one side and switching when they come off or in the instance of an oversupply (which is discussed in\u00a0“Too Much of a Good Thing”<\/a>), doing multiple feeds on each breast to ensure baby is emptying each breast and getting the fat and calories they need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s no secret that breastmilk is an amazing thing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written about its amazingness quite a few times: “New Mommy’s Must Haves” “Why Breastfeeding is Best…for Everyone!” “Milk Hoarder” “Beginning Breastfeeding” “Normalizing Nursing” \u00a0“Breaking the Bottle Norm” “Medicinal Milk’ “Milk Drunk” And I briefly touched on the composition of breastmilk in\u00a0“Too Much of a Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7942,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/7942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Anatomy-of-Breastmilk.png\")
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