Have you seen this?! Look at the picture showing the baby's feet!!! It's just amazing to think that the baby survived! For those of you who don't know, the typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, so this baby was just barely more than 4.5 months into the pregnancy before being born. Ummm... let's all have a moment to give that some thought, shall we?
Wow.
On a slightly related "wow" note, in our childbirth class we learned that the mother's milk is tailored completely to the baby. Yeah, yeah, we all know that, right? Well, did you consider the fact that this is also true for preterm babies? The mother's milk for a preterm baby is different than that of a full-term baby, because the mother's body somehow knows what nutrients the baby needs. Same is true as the baby ages, the mother's milk changes accordingly.
Wow.
The human body is quite something.
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