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Human milk (HM) is especially suitable for infants, both with regard to its nutritional composition and bioactive compounds. Unlike infant formula, which is standardized within a very narrow range of components, HM is a dynamic biofluid, the composition of which varies according to the stage of lactation and between term and preterm babies (Ballard & Morrow, 2013). That is why it is considered by health professionals and breastfeeding defense forums as the “gold standard” for its numerous benefits, which include: savings, practicality, psycho-emotional health, immunological protection, in addition to being ecologically and nutritionally superior in relation to infant formula (Erick, 2018). However, some situations such as the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (Neves & Marin, 2013), cases of mothers using drugs, undergoing chemotherapy, who have hepatitis or cytomegalovirus, may make breastfeeding unsafe (Meira et al., 2008).