Within a single breastfeeding session, the fat-rich milk delivered toward the end of the feeding, which satisfies the infant's appetite, is called:
AForemilk
BColostrum
CTransitional milk
DHindmilk
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Hindmilk
1. Milk composition changes not only over weeks of lactation but also within a single feeding session.
2. Early in a feeding, watery, lactose-rich milk quenches the infant's thirst.
3. This early milk is called foremilk.
4. Toward the end of the same feeding, opaque, fat-rich hindmilk is delivered instead, satisfying the infant's appetite.
_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 28 "Development and Inheritance", p.1353 §Changes in the Composition of Breast Milk_
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