Hi all,
Sorry if this is a strange post, but i dont know any other big groups of people!
Is it a myth, or can any girl/women/lady produce milk from her breasts? without being pregnant and not ever being pregnant. i was told you just have to stimulate the glands. How would someone go about it?
Serious answers please ! its for my girlfriends sister,
Thanks
Alex
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My sister tells me:
A woman who lactates despite never having been pregnant would be likely to have other symptoms of phantom pregnancy caused by hormone imbalance. Women who have had kids can take a very long time to dry up. It could also be caused by a pituitary tumour.
A woman who lactates despite never having been pregnant would be likely to have other symptoms of phantom pregnancy caused by hormone imbalance. Women who have had kids can take a very long time to dry up. It could also be caused by a pituitary tumour.
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what hormones would be good to use, are there any popular ones that have been tried and tested?
Also is it possible without hormones, and massaging them naturally?
Alex
I wouldn't have the first clue which hormones... I should think they would be perscription only tho, as its quite likely to mess with your body!!!
Am resisting the urge to say I would be an expert on natural massage
Sex God
Apparently I've heard it can happen, but I've never met anyone it's happened to. The only peoe I've ever known to lactate without having a baby was someone with a brain tumour :shock: (she's fine now folks) where the tumour was stimulating the pituitary gland, and people who take hormones.... some anabolic steroids can do it apparently....
Sum total of my knowledge above
Sum total of my knowledge above
Sex God
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how did you do it alexandra ?
Manual stimulation works - not every time - but it does work
AAnd Ice - a long time for it to dry up????? My youngest is 16!!!
If you were a wet nurse, you could carry on more or less indefinitely - I've heard of wet nurses lactating well into their 70s, so I imagine continued manual stimulation would have the same effect - I mean your body doesn't know it's not really a baby taking the milk.
Sex God
Alex, see PM
my girlfriends sister has never breastfed, or given birth, shes looking into adoption!
this is why i am asking, as she wants to breastfeed, so realisticly can she make her breasts learn to produce milk by stimulating them, maybe by a breast pump or something? (no breast expert
)
Or how can she massage them into it, if thats the way!?
this is why i am asking, as she wants to breastfeed, so realisticly can she make her breasts learn to produce milk by stimulating them, maybe by a breast pump or something? (no breast expert
)Or how can she massage them into it, if thats the way!?
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Hi all,
Sorry if this is a strange post, but i don't know any other big groups of people!
Is it a myth, or can any girl/women/lady produce milk from her breasts? without being pregnant and not ever being pregnant. i was told you just have to stimulate the glands. How would someone go about it?
Serious answers please ! its for my girlfriends sister,
Thanks
Alex
errrrrr ok ! very embarrassed here
....last year i started to produce milk from me boobs!....went to the doc ...........and had to show her!....boy that was embarrassing 
ops: i can tell you!............but she said its down to nipples stimluation...and in other country's women that have to work that have kids ..........relay on there mum to feed the baby ...so the mums stimulate their boobs to get there milk....now if the milk that is showing is not yellow or green it fine!Pm me if you like!....been there! :oops:
Sex God
Not sure if it would really work but a Victorian book I have on health of babies and infants, suggests manual stimulation works every time :shock:
During the Victorian period, it was common practise for rich women to hire "wet nurses" to feed their child.
These were often a local woman who had recently given birth and perhaps her own baby had died, but more often than not, young women from the Workhouse would be hired for a period of up to a year to breastfeed the child.
Literature of the time suggested
"only plump healthy individuals, with good hair, teeth and general appearance, should be employed. After all, your child's health may be at risk if you employ a woman of poor calibre.
If her person is at all suspect, do not employ her for her milk will surely be of such poor quality and substance, that the childs personality will be impaired."
It goes on to say that the wet nurse should be employed two weeks before the expected time of confinement and manual stimulation of her breasts to be performed (it doesn't say who should do this! lol) every two hours, until lactation occurs.
So there you have it - tweek your nips every two hours for a fortnight and you'll soon be producing enough milk to nourish a child for a whole year!
Tracy-Jayne
During the Victorian period, it was common practise for rich women to hire "wet nurses" to feed their child.
These were often a local woman who had recently given birth and perhaps her own baby had died, but more often than not, young women from the Workhouse would be hired for a period of up to a year to breastfeed the child.
Literature of the time suggested
"only plump healthy individuals, with good hair, teeth and general appearance, should be employed. After all, your child's health may be at risk if you employ a woman of poor calibre.
If her person is at all suspect, do not employ her for her milk will surely be of such poor quality and substance, that the childs personality will be impaired."
It goes on to say that the wet nurse should be employed two weeks before the expected time of confinement and manual stimulation of her breasts to be performed (it doesn't say who should do this! lol) every two hours, until lactation occurs.
So there you have it - tweek your nips every two hours for a fortnight and you'll soon be producing enough milk to nourish a child for a whole year!
Tracy-Jayne
Sex God
Quote by AlexandAlanda
my girlfriends sister has never breastfed, or given birth, shes looking into adoption!
this is why i am asking, as she wants to breastfeed, so realisticly can she make her breasts learn to produce milk by stimulating them, maybe by a breast pump or something? (no breast expert
Or how can she massage them into it, if thats the way!?
The above link is specifically about adoptive breastfeeding. In particular it says:
"Pregnancy is not necessary for breastfeeding. Prolactin (a hormone) is. Pregnancy does change the breast tissue so helps but is not necessary. Many adoptive moms who have never been pregnant have produced 30-100% of the breast milk their child needs. Pumping, sucking, herbs and drugs all help raise the prolactin level."
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my girlfriends sister has never breastfed, or given birth, shes looking into adoption!
this is why i am asking, as she wants to breastfeed, so realisticly can she make her breasts learn to produce milk by stimulating them, maybe by a breast pump or something? (no breast expert
Or how can she massage them into it, if thats the way!?
It is just masssage of the nipples - I couldn't tell you for how long though!
Good luck,
Alex x x
Sex God
Quote by AlexandAlanda
my girlfriends sister has never breastfed, or given birth, shes looking into adoption!
this is why i am asking, as she wants to breastfeed, so realisticly can she make her breasts learn to produce milk by stimulating them, maybe by a breast pump or something? (no breast expert
Or how can she massage them into it, if thats the way!?
can i just point out one thing... i am not sure exactly how addoption works.. however i assume that the baby will not be given to your sister the exact second it has been born.
this means that before your sister gets the baby it will probably have already been bottle fed. should this be the case she might have a problem breastfeeding the baby.. regardless of wether or not she can prduce milk.
it is a LOT easier for a baby to suckle from a bottle than a breast.. thats one of the reasons why they have to teach you to breast feed in the hospital, so if the baby has already got used to being bottle fed.. it will probably struggle.
where as a baby used to breast feeding will be able to drink form a bottle very easilly.
