Expectant Mothers Drinking Milk Results In Faster Growing Babies and Taller Teenagers

This post is a tip on what a mother can do to help her future children become as big as possible. A few things we’ve found before has been that babies who are born during the summer seems to grow slightly faster than babies born in the winter.

This post is a repost of multiple articles which came out in the end of last year (2013).

We refer to multiple news sites which published the exact same information

• DailyMail UK: A daily glass of milk during pregnancy makes your children taller – even when they are teenagers
• New York Times: Drinking Milk in Pregnancy May Lead to Taller Children
• Medical Daily: A Daily Glass Of Milk During Pregnancy Makes Your Child Taller Well Into Adulthood, Cuts Risk Of Diabetes
• Pregnancy.Org – Drinking milk while pregnant may help your child grow taller

The study looked at groups of mother who drank more than 150 millilitres, roughly a quarter of a pint of milk, a day during the pregnancy compare to groups which drank less than the pint of milk. This equals to about 3 cups of milk a day.

The study is really interesting since the study managed to track most of the mothers up o a 20 year time period.

The study is entitled “Maternal milk consumption, birth size and adult height of offspring: a prospective cohort study with 20 years of follow-up“

It is noted by most people however that genetics will almost always overrule the effect of the milk.

What are the implications?

Something which has not been suggested by any of the journalists is the generational effect of this habit. Based on my personally experiences with meeting multiple people who have a milk allergy aka lactose intolerance, I’ve noticed that people who can’t convert the lactose in milk end up slightly shorter than their peers who can ingest the milk.

The result is that the already taller mother who can drink milk will on average have even taller kids while the already shorter mother who can’t consume milk with have her kids end up shorter. The result is that the the heights of the offsprings of the two groups of mothers, will diverge away, resulting in on group being noticeably taller than the other, as the generations go by. Of course, in the real world, you can’t segregate people based on height and we are sure that the two groups of offsprings over the generations will intermingle and mate together, normalizing out the heights so there is no bipolar distributions.