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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

A mother breastfeeds her infant while lying down. Exclusively breastfed infants display a variety of breastfeeding patterns, but their total daily milk intake tends to stay the same.

Defining Normal Breastfeeding Patterns

A close-up of newborn baby feeding. Exclusively breastfed babies tend to exert better appetite control than formula-fed infants.

How Breastfed Babies Control Their Own Appetite

A scowling baby. Research finds that the amount of glucocorticoids in a mother's breast milk influences her infant's behavioral development.

Hormones in Mother’s Milk Influence Baby’s Behavior