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Every detail in the mother's
fat in superficial fascia body is designed to meet
the needs of the baby. For
example, mother's milk be-
milk glands gins to be secreted with the
birth of the baby. But during
lobule containing the pregnancy all necessary
ribs alveoli
preparations are made
milk ducts under the supervision of
reservoir various hormones for the
production of milk. In the
milk, every material that the
baby will need is contained.
When we think about its
general qualities, we see
interlobular clearly that nothing can take
ducts the place of mother's milk.

the stage of the formation of mother's milk.
The formation of the milk is provided by the mother's hormones. The
production of milk is connected basically to a hormone called "prolactin"
produced by the anterior pituitary gland in the brain. During pregnancy,
the progesterone and the oestrogen hormones produced by the placenta
prevent prolactin from being activated and producing milk. But the pla-
centa is discharged after birth causing the level of progesterone and oest-
rogen in the blood to fall; after this, prolactin comes into action and
contributes to the formation of milk. Because of this communication
among the hormones, such a valuable nutrient as mother's milk is prepa-
red exactly at the moment when the baby needs it. This is indeed a mo-
mentous exchange of information. While the placenta is in the body, it
performs vital tasks but at the right time it must be ejected. This brings
with it a very important development for human life. As we have seen, in
the stages of human creation all the things that take place complement

one another. Certainly, these are clear proofs that every human being has
been constructed by a supreme power.
And these stages continue after the baby has come into the world. The
production of milk by the mother increases according to the baby's need for
nourishment. In the first days, up to 50 g. is produced; in the sixth month,

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