I saw a video last night that inspired me to read about human breast milk and the connection between a breastfeeding mother and the child. Follow me.
The composition of the breast milk is not fixed. It changes from time to time, depending on the baby's needs. When a baby latches on to the nipples to suckle, a tiny amount of the baby's saliva flows back into the mother's nipple ducts during feeding. Receptors in the breast interpret this "data," detecting signals about the baby's health, hydration, or needs. In response, the mother's body rapidly adjusts the milk's composition, tailoring it precisely to support her child. This real-time feedback loop highlights how wonderfully attuned the human body is, turning breastfeeding into a dynamic conversation rather than a one-way provision.
This adaptive process can trigger remarkable shifts inside the breast. If the baby's saliva indicates low hydration, the milk becomes more watery to quench thirst. When illness is detected (through pathogens or cues in the saliva), antibodies and immune factors spike, providing targeted protection. For a baby that's too tired, the fat content may increase to promote calmness and satisfaction. These changes can occur within hours, or even minutes, demonstrating the body's extraordinary efficiency.
Breast milk also follows a circadian pattern. "Night milk" enriched in melatonin and sleep-promoting compounds like tryptophan, helping babies settle during evening feeds. Daytime milk, by contrast, contains higher levels of alertness-boosting elements. What this means is that you can pump your breast milk at night and store it, after labeling it properly. If your baby is having a hard time sleeping in the afternoon, you can give them this "night milk" and they will sleep better.
Even the colors of expressed breast milk reveal its living, responsive nature. Everyday mature milk is typically white or creamy. A yellowish tint often signals immune-loaded protection. So, when your baby is ill, the milk will have a yellowish tint. Green colours may come from a mother's diet of leafy greens, while orange or deep yellow reflects carotenoids from foods like carrots. Pink traces can appear from harmless blood (such as from cracked nipples).
The human body is amazing.
The women's body is amazing.
Most importantly, BREAST is awesome!
In 10 years, Disney will own all of the content, Amazon will own all of the shopping, and Apple/Google will own all of the data.
4 companies being this powerful should be really alarming to people.
Greek linguistic fact: The New Testament uses a single Greek term—brephos—to refer to both an unborn child and a newborn infant. Scripture does not treat life in the womb as a different category of humanity than life outside it. When Mary greets Elizabeth, “the brephos leaped in her womb” (Luke 1:41), and when Christ is born, the shepherds are told they will find “the brephos wrapped in swaddling cloths” (Luke 2:12). The same word covers both moments.
In God’s eyes, ontologlically, the child hidden in the womb and the child held in a mother’s arms bear the same dignity. Biologically, the unborn child is alive and genetically distinct, yet simply in a less developed state than the born child. Theologically, both are His creation, made in His image. Ethically, human life is worthy of safeguarding because of these truths. Scripture and nature speak with one voice.
The biblical witness does not fragment human worth by stage of development; it affirms one continuous, God-given life that is in a constant state of development.
🚨 STARTING DECEMBER 16TH, META WILL BEGIN READING YOUR DMs - EVERY MESSAGE, PHOTO & VOICE NOTE FED INTO AI FOR PROFIT
Meta is rolling out a new policy that lets them use your private conversations to train their AI - unless you manually opt out.
That means:
• Every DM you’ve ever sent
• Every photo
• Every voice memo
• Every private chat with friends, family, partners, clients
• Even messages people send to you
All of it can be fed into their AI models.
And yes - they made the opt-out process intentionally confusing and desktop-only so most people won’t do it.
This video explains exactly how to stop it.
If you don’t do this, Meta can legally use every private thing you’ve ever sent to train their AI - starting December 16th.
This is not a drill.
Would YOU trust Meta with your private DMs?
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
Retweet so every is aware.
“the level of difficulty in that cha cha” “that was perfection” where was the difficulty? where was the perfect? yall got me agreeing with carrie ann and i rarely do #DWTS
At The Bravos and Andy’s final monologue joke was this:
Craig is single! He’s hot! He’s a business owner. He’s on a successful podcast - oh wait those are words to describe Paige
The audience lost their minds 💀
It's heartbreaking to think of the wonderful artists who put so much obvious love and care into every frame of the old Disney cartoons. I'm glad they aren't around to see this.
A Knight’s Tale (2001) is one of those films you revisit thinking it’ll be a light comfort watch and then remember it absolutely cooks. The rock-opera energy, the charm, the sincerity… it all still hits.