Milk from breast

[JoNaSaN]

Hi I'm a newbie here.... been searching for an answer here but can't seems to find it... Maybe some of the lao cheows here can help mi... If possible some gals here can help mi too...

Do women start to produce milk when she is pregnant or even not pregnant? If a woman produce milk, can I say that she is pregnant before?

[lionox]

Women produce milk through the activation of the hormone oxytocin. It is usually only active after child birth. Also it is stimulated only through the sucklling on the nipples which produces the reflex action of a 'letdown'.

Women who have not gone through pregnancies cannot produce milk as they do not have the hormone oxytocin. However, if there is a bodily dsyfunction, then you can't be sure.

There have been reports that women who have stopped breastfeeding for some time can still produce milk if they nipples are stimulated enough. If there is no suckling on the nipples for some time, the body will take it that there is no need to produce any more and the milk supply dwindles eventually.

Hope this helps

It's the delivery of the child that kicks off lactation - pregnancy merely prepares the breasts for the production and capacity.

High prolactin levels in women can cause lactation without pregnancy. I suppose you could call that a dysfunction

There *are* medications of course that can kickstart and maintain lactation, but they are all prescription only.

Did you know that after a woman stops breastfeeding her child(ren) and still occasionally expresses her milk (or has help from someone ) she can continue to lactate for quite a while...

[sg_boytoy]

Originally Posted by JoNaSaN

Hi I'm a newbie here.... been searching for an answer here but can't seems to find it... Maybe some of the lao cheows here can help mi... If possible some gals here can help mi too...

Do women start to produce milk when she is pregnant or even not pregnant? If a woman produce milk, can I say that she is pregnant before?

Brother JoNaSaN, is your GF/wife pregnant and you are curious or did you experience a lactating WL?

[JoNaSaN]

Cos my ex-gf last time pregnant before mah... then got milk coming out... so i just wanna know whether is it normal...

actually quite shiok... taste a bit sweet....

Originally Posted by JoNaSaN

actually quite shiok... taste a bit sweet....

Why do you think some breastfed babies refuse to take formula? It's sweet, right temperature, perfect container and you get to cuddle!

[JoNaSaN]

Yup! Thanks for the informations...

[fun4evergood]

Originally Posted by ivy7

Why do you think some breastfed babies refuse to take formula? It's sweet, right temperature, perfect container and you get to cuddle!

so .... are u breastfeeding your child......

[bullit69]

Originally Posted by ivy7

Why do you think some breastfed babies refuse to take formula? It's sweet, right temperature, perfect container and you get to cuddle!

lol... good way to put it... makes me wanna be a baby once again...

Originally Posted by fun4evergood

so .... are u breastfeeding your child......

I prefer to comment on issues I can directly relate to

[KingBong]

So it's possible for women who are not pregnant to lactate? Thought I tasted something diff on my gal's right nipple the last 2 times we made out. It wasn't exactly sweet.

[analog539]

The hormone that causes lactation is prolactin...
It is produced in most women after birth but sometimes shortly before birth. Aritificial prolactin can be administered to a woman who has not given birth and given adiquate stimulation of her breasts, she will start to produce milk.

oxytocin is responsible for feelings of love AND also for making the uteris contract. That's why your wife gets a tugging feeling in her lower abdomen immediately after birth when the baby suckles, its to help stop the bleeding in the uteris. oxytocin has NOTHING to due with lactation other than suckling causes its natural release.


Jim