MOTHERS who want a quiet night may need to more careful about how they use expressed milk.
The naturally occurring chemicals in human breast milk that cause sleepiness are most concentrated in milk expressed at night, so breast milk pumped and bottled during the day may not help babies to the land of nod if given to them at night.
“It is a mistake for the mother to express the milk at a certain time and then store it and feed it to the baby at a different time,” says Cristina Sánchez at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain.…
