Talk:Lactation/Archive 1

Merge?
Is there any reason not to merge this with breastfeeding? Kickstart70 23:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes - Lactation is much broader in scope than just human breastfeeding. Peculiarities and habits of other mammals would fit better here than there.


 * That was the case before I made this article - I was rather silly to mention lactation in an article on sheep and have it redirect to an article on human breastfeeding. Lactation also has a wider scope than breastfeeding.--Peta 06:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this should also be mentioned (related to the hormone thing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation -GameCreator


 * I was looking for more information on lactation for my anatomy class, specifically females who lactate even though they were never pregnant. What causes it and what not. Maybe more information on this will be helpful to expanding this article.

Is it possible to produce milk when a woman is NOT pregnant?
 * Yes, females produce milk after they give birth to feed the child they just had. Rockpock  e  t  02:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

What is lOAFER? Gronteam (talk) 02:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)Gronteam

Human lactation
The human lactation section has been brought over from the breastfeeding article, partly to add a lot more information about lactation to this article as well as to reduce the size of the breastfeeding article which is much too large. Ciotog 02:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The one question I had that this article did not answer is how does lacatation cease?71.225.102.120 03:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced IP modification
What are we to make of this diff?--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:39, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It concurs with the rest of the sentence. By definition the second trimester only begins in the 4th month. However the trimesters are fairly arbitary things, there's no reason why it would begin at exactly the 4th month/second trimester, it may very well not be that consistent and may vary from the 3-4th month Nil Einne (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Breastfeeding somebody else's baby
Is it correct to say that this is possible through 'Lactation without pregnancy, Induced lactation or Relactation'? And are there any negative consequences for the child who is given breastmilk from a woman who is not his/her natural mother? 86.42.71.111 (talk) 00:17, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's a widespread practice called wet nursing. Max Hyre (talk) 13:50, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Advertising?
Surely this is a sneaky bit of advertising on Wikipedia:

"Lansinoh HPA Lanolin soothes, heals and protects sore cracked nipples. It is the only topical nipple cream endorsed in the US by La Leche League International*, considered the foremost experts on breastfeeding. [8]"Lukeowen100 (talk) 01:16, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Induced lactation
Induced lactation will work for anyone that tries. All people have the opportunity to induce lactation following guidelines and instructions. Mika0004 (talk) 5:36, 23 August 2020  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mika0004 (talk • contribs)

Currently the text gives the impression that this would always work if someone tries hard enough which is almost certainly wrong. More likely it might work for some women in some circumstances. Richiez (talk) 10:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Induced lactation section needs expansion
The section in induced lactation is missing a lot of info such as: --Cab88 (talk) 17:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Use of induced lactation for breastfeeding an adopted baby.
 * Use of relactation for restarting breastfeeding when a mother accidentally weans earlier then desired, regrets weaning so early, or due to some medical or other issues dries up and needs to restart the flow of milk.
 * Basic methods of induced lactation, including the use of nipple stimulation via a breast pump and certain medications.
 * Mention the fact that not every mother can fully induce a full supply or any in some cases.

Diagram
The diagram of the human breast is out of date. How about replacing it with a more up to date version? I do not know how to do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puah Naomi (talk • contribs) 12:16, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Evolution of lactation and insects
While it would be nice to have a source saying that (if) it is a case of parallel evolution or a comparison with lactation in vertebrates I could not find any so I have added it as is. Richiez (talk) 15:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Photos
Why have we no picture of human breastfeeding?TheMouthofSauron (talk) 23:47, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Lactation Page Could Use Updates
Under the "purpose" section it does not elucidate the facts about breastmilk not only providing nutrition, but acting as signaling and medicine to fetuses and neonates.

This article also fails to mention the linkages between breast milk and the infant microbiome, as well as hormonal signaling and immunofactors. I think it could improve by having a section dedicated to the bioconstituents of milk.

This pages tone was neutral. I believe the medical research on lactation was represented well, evolutionary, demographic, and anthropological research on lactation was underrepresented/underdeveloped here. This page could be updated with recent work.

Delasaurusrex2019 (talk) 03:55, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Other species
I am surprised since apparently this page was originally created to differentiate from breastfeeding, but reading through it, it appears to be mostly about lactation in humans. Perhaps most of this technical info applies to ALL mammals, but it isn't clear. Is induced lactation something that applies to animals? Do cats produce colostrum? Do all mammals rely on prolactin? I can't tell which parts apply to lactation in general, and which are specifically about HUMAN lactation. Surely, for that matter, the mechanism described here doesn't apply to ALL lactation; what about the non-mammalian cases mentioned?.

64.223.107.232 (talk) 20:34, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Sign of pregnancy sometime in life except humans and goats
In most species, lactation is a sign that the individual has been pregnant at some point in her life, with the exception of humans and goats. It is clearly a sign an individual human has been pregnant, it just also has other causes. This should be changed to reflect it Immanuelle (talk) 19:12, 4 April 2022 (UTC)