{"id":1352,"date":"2021-05-06T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2021-05-06T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:37:11","slug":"does-breast-milk-of-vaccinated-moms-protect-babies-from-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Does breast milk of vaccinated moms protect babies from infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0We heard a study recently saying breast milk from vaccinated moms was providing antibodies to babies. Any idea how strong that protection is?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>There is some promising new research out!\u00a0 Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology <\/em>recently published this study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajog.org\/article\/S0002-9378(21)00187-3\/pdf\">COVID-19 vaccine response in pregnant and lactating women: a cohort study<\/a>, which observed levels of antibody production after 1st and 2nd doses of vaccination among pregnant and lactating women (in maternal blood, umbilical&nbsp;blood, and breastmilk).&nbsp; Researchers also included in their study pregnant women who had been naturally infected with SARS-CoV-2 in order to compare vaccine-derived antibody production and infection-derived antibody production.&nbsp; Among the findings were these three important nuggets:&nbsp;<ul><li>COVID mRNA vaccines generated robust immunity in pregnant and lactating women;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vaccine-induced immune responses were significantly greater than the response to natural infection;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vaccination resulted in robust antibody circulation in breast milk, indicating that breast milk could confer immunity to neonates.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>JAMA <\/em>recently published this research,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2778766\">SARS-CoV-2\u2013Specific Antibodies in Breast Milk After COVID-19 Vaccination of Breastfeeding Women<\/a>, which also investigated &#8220;whether maternal immunization results in secretion of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into breast milk.&#8221;&nbsp; Here, the main findings are:&nbsp;<ul><li>Yes, post-vaccination (and for the six week study follow-up period), there was &#8220;robust secretion of SARS-CoV-2 specific IgA and IgG antibodies in breast milk.&#8221;; and&nbsp;<\/li><li>These types of antibodies <a href=\"https:\/\/mbio.asm.org\/content\/12\/1\/e03192-20\">have been shown <\/a>to have &#8220;strong neutralizing effects, suggesting a&nbsp;potential protective effect against infection in the infant.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We still don&#8217;t have direct evidence of protection conferred from breast milk, the strength of protection conferred, and how that protection may be modified based on various characteristics (like breastfed child&#8217;s age).&nbsp; More still to come. That said, the accumulating evidence is indeed very promising!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0We heard a study recently saying breast milk from vaccinated moms was providing antibodies to babies. Any idea how strong that protection is?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0There is some promising new research out!\u00a0 Here are a few highlights: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology recently published this study,&nbsp;COVID-19 vaccine response in pregnant and lactating women: a cohort study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85,38,17,64],"tags":[99,191],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-immunity","category-risk-reduction","category-vaccines","tag-antibodies","tag-breastmilk","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pexels-photo-895515.jpeg?fit=990%2C1300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}