Breastfed babies more receptive to tastes

Breastfed babies may develop “more sophisticated palates”, researchers say.  What has your experience been?  For my part, my elder child has a relatively narrow range of things he likes to eat, but that includes some rather unusual things (sardines, for instance!).  My youngest child will eat practically anything - except celery and chestnuts!

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Amazing story of donated breastmilk

Just came across this story about a little girl, Isabella Sciulli, born premature, whose mother worked hard to establish a good breastmilk supply, but very sadly died whilst the baby was still in intensive care.  Her husband and friends knew she didn’t want her baby to have formula, so organised breastmilk donations for her.
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Research into breastmilk composition shows it contains stem cells

I don’t pretend to know a vast amount about the science behind this (well, I could pretend, but it would be very clear rather quickly that I was doing just that!) - but I thought this was an interesting and positive story and I wanted to add it to the blog.
Apparently stem cells found in [...]