TORONTO --
Although the current COVID-19 vaccines have not been approved for infants, it turns out there may be another way babies can get antibodies in their system: through the breast milk of mothers who have been vaccinated themselves.
Several recent studies have shown that antibodies can be passed from mothers to their infants through breastfeeding.
Previous studies looked at mothers who were infected with COVID-19 themselves, but emerging data has also looked at whether vaccinated mothers may be able to pass along antibodies.
One small study, published at the end of March in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, tracked five women for a period of several months in order to measure how long antibodies might be present in breast milk after vaccination.