Transgender Woman Breast-Feeds Baby After Hospital Induces Lactation

By artappraiser on Thu, 02/15/2018 - 4:59pm |

By Ceylan Yeginsu @ NYTimes.com, Feb. 15

When a transgender woman told doctors at a hospital in New York that she wanted to breast-feed her pregnant partner’s baby, they put her on a regimen of drugs that included an anti-nausea medication licensed in Britain and Canada but banned in the United States.

Within a month, according to the journal Transgender Health, the woman, 30, who was born male, was producing droplets of milk. Within three months — two weeks before the baby’s due date — she had increased her production to eight ounces of milk a day [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/health/transgender-woman-breast-feed.html