by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

To me, the ability to produce food that's perfectly tailored to an infant's nutritional needs is endlessly fascinating ? the mechanics behind it, that is. Did you know that adoptive mothers can induce lactation" Yep. Even cooler" Lactation can be induced in transgender women.
And the first-ever case to be documented in academic literature has arrived.
A 30-year-old transgender woman was able to successfully breastfeed her baby, according to a case study published in Transgender Health. ?Transgender medicine is becoming part of mainstream medicine. We?re getting more evidence-based data, we?re getting more standardized care, we?re getting more reproductive options," said Tamar Reisman of Mount Sinai hospital in New York, one of the doctors involved in the case.
The transgender woman approached doctors about breastfeeding after her 5-months-pregnant partner had expressed that she didn't want to nurse their baby, The Guardian reported. According to the study, the patient had been taking hormone therapy for six years, but had not undergone gender reassignment or breast augmentation. To induce lactation, the transgender woman started a regimen of female hormones -- progesterone and estradiol -- was instructed to stimulate her chest with a breast pump and took domperidone to increase milk production.
A month later, the patient was producing droplets of milk, The Washington Post reported. And three months into her treatm...