The milk produced by a woman who has recently had a baby.
Milk like fluid secreted by female breasts after childbirth and used as food for newborns, providing all necessary nutrients and some level of immunity against certain diseases.
Mother’s milk. Beginning with the colostrum produced the first few days after childbirth, breast milk provides babies with the ideal balance of nutrients in forms readily available to the infant’s immature digestive tract, plus valuable protection against disease.
Milk obtained from the mammary glands of the human breast. It is the ideal source of nutrition for most infants, since it contains maternal antibodies that protect the child from infection, and other substances that promote development of the brain and the gastrointestinal tract, among other organs. Human breast milk that is collected and refrigerated immediately may be used for up to 5 days. If it is collected, frozen, and stored at — 17.7°C (0°F), it is safe for 6 months.