I found this quite interesting! Lol
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milkmen: fathers who breastfeed
by laura shanley
i first became interested in male
lactation in 1978 after reading dana
raphael's book, the tender gift:
breastfeeding. Although raphael only
dealt with the subject briefly, she did
say that men can and have produced milk
after stimulating their nipples.
While my (now ex) husband david had no
interest in nursing our son, we both were
intrigued with the idea. We had just had
our first unassisted homebirth and were
excited about applying our positive
thinking techniques to other aspects of
our lives. Although raphael had written
about milk production through nipple
stimulation, perhaps, we thought, david
could do it simply through suggestion. He
began telling himself that he would
lactate, and within a week, one of his
breasts swelled up and milk began dripping
out. When we excitedly showed my father
(a physician) david's breast he said,
"obviously there's something
physiologically wrong with david." the
fact that david had willed himself to do
this, did not impress him. We knew,
however, that this was yet another example
of the power of the mind.
Still, we were not ready for david to
actually breastfeed our baby. First of
all, there was no need for it. I was
doing just fine on my own. But more
importantly, he simply had no desire to do
it. After he discovered that his body had
indeed been responsive to his thoughts, he
suggested to himself that the lactation
would stop, and within a week his breast
returned to normal. The experiment had
been a success.
We didn't give it much thought after that
until years later when I came across a
short article called "male lactation" by
professor patty stuart macadam of the
department of anthropology at the
university of toronto (compleat mother,
fall, 1996, volume 43).
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