The study, which was conducted by an international team of researchers, found that certain bacteria, including Streptococcus and Veillonella species occurred in both mothers’ breast milk and their infants’ stools. Furthermore, the study authors detected that the co-occurrence was higher in infants that were directly breastfed compared to infants that were bottle-fed.
What these findings imply, as the study authors suggested, was that the breastfeeding has a major role to play in the development of infant gut population of bacteria, what’s called gut microbiota or microbiome. Gut microbiome plays a key role in the strength of the immune system, and this study provides a better understanding of how the multiple breast feeding practices, including the mode, exclusivity, and duration of breastfeeding, affects infants’ immune systems and their susceptibility to various childhood infections.
Read more here – https://news.ubc.ca/2020/07/10/mom-and-baby-share-good-bacteria-through-breast-milk/
