After a woman gives birth at a hospital, a doctor will likely follow up with her, making sure she's healing internally. Sadly, most doctors only offer pain-relief drugs at this point, giving no practical advice for some common challenges that women are bound to face after giving birth. When a new mother plans to build her newborn's immune system with her own colostrum and breast milk, she needs the best support. Struggles that may come up include dealing with post partum mood changes, low milk supply, or troubles with her baby latching correctly.

Breastfeeding is the ultimate way to protect a newborn from viruses. In this study, breast milk protected newborns from live rotavirus strains that were injected via vaccine. Breast milk gave the infants immunity to three rotavirus vaccine strains, RV1, RV5 G1, and 116E. Breast milk exerts specific IgA and neutralizing activity against all three virus strains, proving it's superiority in immune system development.