hormones

Brain Hormone Protects Maternal Bones During Lactation

Long-tailed Macaque breastfeeding a baby sitting on cable at fraser's hill, Malaysia, Asia (Macaca fascicularis)

Take It Easy: Neonatal Milk Hormones Influence Infant Social and Cognitive Behavior

Group of piglets breastfeed from their mother. Lactocrine programming is a new term coined by researchers to refer to the relationships between the hormones from a nursing mother's milk and her nursing infants' growth.

Stop, Slow, & Go: Hormonal Signals from Mother’s Milk

White rat looking around the corner of a wall. Lactating has been shown to improve "Object-in-place" Memory.

Lactating Helps Rats Remember