Maternal nutrition has little or no effect on many nutrients in human milk; for others, human
milk may not be designed as a primary nutritional source for the infant; and for a few,
maternal nutrition can lead to substantial variations in human milk quality. Human milk fatty
acids are among the nutrients that show extreme sensitivity to maternal nutrition and are
implicated in neurological development. Extensive development occurs in the infant brain,
with growth from~ 350 g at birth to 925 g at 1 y, with this growth including extensive dendritic …