Chocolate chip cookies. Thanks.
No, I didn’t. I meant to challenge the notion that my body would have a 14 month store of fat already dedicated to the offspring. Preemies do need more milkfat for months, and she’s still a skinny little thing, despite an appetite for butter eaten by the spoonful. There was no more fat in there than she needed. She needed more fat than most infants, and so she got it.
Oh, of course it is. It’s biochemical, hormonal, etc. There’s some perfectly logical process behind it that’s amazing and wonderfully cool, and almost entirely not yet understood. It’s not, as I said, ID or creationism - it’s just even *more *amazingly cool to me than the things the IDers point to as “gotchas” (like eyes and bats and giraffes).
Come on - we can admit things are cool and we don’t yet know how they work! If we could already explain everything, biology would be a very boring science!
Steve, Don’t Eat It! covered this one a while back. It comes to the same basic conclusion as everybody here, but mostly funnier. Some cussing and a couple of pictures that are probably NSFW.
You said it lasted for 14 months. That’s past the time when the baby needed that much milkfat.
I wasn’t saying you did. I was saying that’s what was going on initially, and that hormones and expression kept it going at the same level that your body was already producing for that stage of pregnancy.
She got it because you were already producing for a baby at exatcly that stage of development. There’s nothing mysterious about it.
I wasn’t trying to buzzkill your awe about it, just offer an explanation. I can’t help wanting to offer prosaic explanations for things that other people get even a little bit woo woo about. It’s on my harddrive. I can’t help myself. Everything about pregnancy and childbirth is amazing, of course.
It’s sweet and thin.
Hot Wings, at least that was what my daughter liked best. As a tiny baby she often smelled of hot wings.
I have read that cheese made from human breast milk is extremely delicious. I’d love to try it some day. Supposedly it’s made in Belgium, although probably not for sale.
I’ve also read that people tend to like salty and sweet tastes due to the experience of breast feeding - the sweet breast milk and the salty skin of mom if she’s sweat at all.
My admittedly overly-analytical biogeek take on those cravings is the fact that sugars and sodium are critical biochemically required components of healthy human function. That, I believe, is the root cause of those cravings.
I just came in to note that the best description I ever heard for the taste of breastmilk is that it’s like the milk left in the bowl after you’ve eaten Cheerios with sugar on them. “Sweet and thin” misses the slightly grainy, carby taste I noted when I tasted mine.