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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the (breast)-milk-does-a-body-good dept.

Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

A 30-year-old transgender woman has become the first officially recorded to breastfeed her baby. An experimental three-and-a-half-month treatment regimen, which included hormones, a nausea drug and breast stimulation, enabled the woman to produce 227 grams of milk a day.

"This is a very big deal," says Joshua Safer of Boston Medical Center, who was not involved with the treatment. "Many transgender women are looking to have as many of the experiences of non-transgender women as they can, so I can see this will be extremely popular."

The transgender woman had been receiving feminising hormonal treatments for several years before she started the lactation treatment. These included spironolactone, which is thought to block the effects of testosterone, and progesterone and a type of oestrogen. This regimen enabled her to develop breasts that looked fully grown, according to a medical scale that assesses breast development based on appearance. She had not had any breast augmentation surgery.

When her partner was five-and-a-half-months pregnant, the woman sought medical treatment from Tamar Reisman and Zil Goldstein at Mount Sinai's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. Her partner had no interest in breastfeeding, she explained, so she would like to take on that role instead.

The milk produced was supplemented by formula because a baby typically needs 500 grams of milk per day at 5 days old.

Related: President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Says Transgender Women Could Give Birth


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @12:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @12:15AM (#639881)

    Family size for leftists is on average a bit less than 2 kids per woman. In other words, they are headed toward extinction. It's no surprise. You won't get lots of kids when you favor abortions, working females, and LGBT.

    Family size for the right is on average about 2.5 kids per woman. This is exponential growth.

    I'd dig up a reference for you, but every word is so damn common and ordinary. It's unsearchable as far as I can tell.

    I'm doing my part, having produced 11 kids so far. I'm raising them hard-core alt-right, although their mom dilutes that with hard-core Catholicism. The future belongs to those who show up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @05:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @05:01AM (#639970)

    Well the historic trend is towards true liberalism, you can go into it squealing like a pig and popping out unsaistainable levels of children but thankfully odds are your kids will break out of your brainwashing eventually. Can see the stories all the time, ex alt-riggters and Catholics who are horrified at what they once were.