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bulletproof -> RE: Forced Lactation (8/20/2005 9:31:23 AM)
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I think the word "coaxed" should be used. soooo much of lactation or relacation is mental. literally, thinking certain thoughts.
to this day, and my youngest kid is 10, if I am looking at pictures of him as a newborn, I can feel let down pangs.
calling it forced, or trying to punish it into happening, almost guarantees it will not. once established, I suppose it is easy enough to involve in scenes.
frequency is the key, with any lactation, whether for a baby you gave birth to (where the hormones are lined up for success) or an adopted infant, or a partner. it is a supply and demand system. nurse twenty times in one day, for say ten minutes, and no, you won't produce much that day.
it's the next day you will. drop off the number of feedings one day? the next day the supply will be lower.
but that initial onset, so much of it is about the mental state. you have to be calm. you have to feel not rushed, not panicky. this, more than anything, leads to the mothers who gave birth and can't seem to supply enough milk. it usually is not mechanical trouble, or biological. just mental. exhausted, scared and feeling under pressure is a guarantee of non success.
the only pumps which actually come close to recreating the actual gum movements and sucking that are necessary, are the electric hospital issue type pumps. they can be rented, or bought.
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