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Etoile said:Wow - in all my research about inducing lactation, I've never heard of this. Have you perhaps seen it documented anywhere? I'd be very curious to read that!
Good question. I have seen quite a bit of documention of women who breast feed other women's children in various cultures. But most of those cases are women who could breast feed because they had a recent pregnancy and had been breast feeding already, had just weaned their own child, and were still lactating. Or, they were cases in which they were not lactating, but though the practice of caring for someone else's child and pacifying it by letting it suckle, they eventually started to lactate. That was, of course, through regular, prolongued periods of stimulation of the mammary glands. I haven't seen anything written about the type of thing that happened to me. In anthropology there are a few things written in which the authors suspect that similar things have happened, but they aren't sure (and in most cases it wasn't the focus of their research). But I'm sure I can't be the only one this has happened to. But unfortunately I don't think anything like that has been documented. Although, if it does exist it would more than likely be found in an anthropology journal or book somewhere.

