What is Colostrum?
What is colostrum?
Colostrum is a form of milk produced by the mother in late pregnancy and shortly after birth. As a new mother you can expect to generate colostrum beginning at some point during the day you birth your child. Colostrum is also known as besting or first milk or “immune milk”. It gets its nickname “immune milk” from the concentrated nutrients. It is highly concentrated as the stomach of your new born can hold only a small volume of liquid and so the first mothers milk your child consumes is loaded with goodness to help them grow and develop.
What is colostrum?
Colostrum also acts as a natural laxative for you baby helping their digestive system get up and moving after birth. Remember that your little one has not needed to use the same methods of absorbing food as you and I use so now it becomes important to get their digestive system moving.
What is colostrum?
Colostrum is the last little bits of immunology passed from you to your child. It is a concentrated does of tailored immune factors to help protect your new born against the threats of their new environment. Colostrum also works to “seal up” the last bit of the gastrointestinal tract with a sort of biological barrier that helps prevent any foreign substances from entering any further into their system. Colostrum also contains a very high concentration of a specific white blood cell called leukocytes, which assume a protective role, searching out and destroying health problem causing bacteria and viruses.
Colostrum milk will generally last only about two weeks. During this time it will change from the intensely concentrated formula to a higher volume and different nutritional version of breast milk called mature milk.
