And the antibodies can be used to fight off different types of pathogens that might infect that growing child. Now, what the milk also does is it provides the proteins and the carbohydrates and the nutrients, the minerals that are needed by that child to actually develop into a fully functional individual. Now let's actually discuss how the process of lactation actually takes place and let's take a look at the following diagram. So we have the child and we have the breast of the mother. Now these are the memory glands. So this is the memory gland, it contains the lobes of granular tissue as well as our ducts.