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post #1 of 33
7/12/04 at 9:01pm
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milk men....

im as crunchy and radical as ... well .... granola ... but this is too strange!
post #2 of 33
7/12/04 at 9:14pm
Hmmm well, more power to them. The bond you have with nursing a baby is very special, it would be neat if men experienced that. Maybe they would be more nurturing ingeneral... think of, if a mom (like me) wasn't able to fully bf, and the man could contribute!

Wouldn't it be funny if a baby developed nipple preference for one parent, tho ... lol
post #3 of 33
7/12/04 at 9:21pm
I always remind my DH that he "could" breastfeed, and that maybe he should think about it to help me out. Usually I remind him at the times that I am so tired of nursing DS, or when DH is complaining. :
post #4 of 33
7/12/04 at 10:07pm
yeah, I first saw this artical about 6 months ago. Pretty shocking, I didn't even know men were atomicaly capible of producing milk before I read this.

oh, BTW I have that book featured in the artical. Fresh Milk, great read.
post #5 of 33
7/12/04 at 10:24pm
HOLY COW...I *just* had a dream where men had to breastfeed in public (lol...must have been after I had to bfip one day). Too weird!
post #6 of 33
7/12/04 at 10:34pm
I would be really interested in seeing more studies of this, including a study of the milk content- I wonder if it is the same?
post #7 of 33
7/12/04 at 11:44pm
I don't see the need for men to breastfeed. I don't like the idea, I'm happy with us women having the gift of giving birth and nursing our children.
post #8 of 33
7/13/04 at 12:21am
I completely agree loving-my-babies. I LIKE the fact that men don't breastfeed.
post #9 of 33
7/13/04 at 12:48am

Few things render me speechless................but this would be one of those things.................
post #10 of 33
7/13/04 at 12:51am
I personally believe God gave men nipples for the same reason he gave them to us. If the mother were to die in childbirth the baby could be fed by the father so it wouldn't die.
post #11 of 33
7/13/04 at 1:05am
I was gunna say the same thing, AnnMarie, except that men were evolved with nipples for a reason :LOL (same idea, just different methods of 'creation' )

maybe some day it will be nessessary for them to lactate...doesnt seem strange at all to me.....more power to them.... a father is just as or can be just as vital to an infants well being as the mom. I am just glad to read of fathers who desire to be so special to their children, I usually see so many detached fathers it sad

maybe with all these 'multiple births' a man can take up the slack by lactating. women may not be 'meant' to have children in litters (more than 3 or so as often as it happens now) but if men can lactate, they can take up the slack some day.....who knows. evolution trys to correct issues that come up...maybe
post #12 of 33
7/13/04 at 1:39am
i've seen this before, and i think it's a really neat idea. i think if my SO weren't so hairy, we'd probably try it just out of curiosity...

after all, men *do* have nipples, and they do have essentially the same gear as women. i don't really see what's so freaky about this. but, like i said, the hair is really an issue, at least w/ my SO. maybe breastfeeding would reduce the man hormones that produce all that hair though (?).




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maybe some day it will be nessessary for them to lactate...doesnt seem strange at all to me.....more power to them.... a father is just as or can be just as vital to an infants well being as the mom. I am just glad to read of fathers who desire to be so special to their children, I usually see so many detached fathers it sad
post #13 of 33
7/13/04 at 2:09am
I thought men had nipples just because we all start out more or less the same in the zygote stage and it's just more efficient not to have to differentiate all the physical parts until we branch off and start developing the more sex specific gender goodies.

Anyway... it's been many years since I read the physiology stuff on fetal development. I can just see my two sons getting a mouthful of hairy nipple and promptly spitting it back out again! :LOL
post #14 of 33
7/13/04 at 2:40am
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I can just see my two sons getting a mouthful of hairy nipple and promptly spitting it back out again!
:LOL

i remember one of my nephews, as an infant, tried to latch on to his daddy while his mommy was in the shower... got a mouthful of hairy nipple but kept on trying to nurse for a few moments before getting a very confused look and realizing that really wasn't what he wanted at all. :LOL
post #15 of 33
7/13/04 at 3:12am
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Originally Posted by Roxsam
i'd still have to say i'd rather let a man nurse my baby than eat my own placenta!
Now that's putting it in perspective! :rotfl
post #16 of 33
7/13/04 at 3:25am
I'm a tad confused now... do people in other cultures eat the placenta??!
post #17 of 33
7/13/04 at 3:25am
I love this stuff and the resources on that article are great! It's good information because I feel like it could empower men a little more in the infant care department. I don't, personally, feel that it belittles what I can do *at all*.

It's just information and I imagine that it's been part of our human knowledge forever. It's natural. Perhaps it was the ultimate safetynet from before a good supply of ABM was available. Because people were probably not nearly as "prude" about BFing other people's babies, it was probably needed very rarely but still...cool.
post #18 of 33
7/13/04 at 4:08am
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I'm a tad confused now... do people in other cultures eat the placenta??!

... some people in THIS culture eat the placenta. some people here do it.



animals do it all the time. i personally wouldn't, but i'm planning a Lotus birth anyway (cord + placenta remain attached)... so i'm not going to be eating a week (or however)- old placenta that's all dried and funky, kwim?
post #19 of 33
7/13/04 at 6:15am
We read an article like that after DS was born so DH had to try...it wasn't very sucessful :LOL . DH's nipples are inverted and, well, he's just not mama! I think DH was more curious than anything. I said all the power to him!!! (I was having tons of nursing/depression/extreme exhaustion problems at the time and was feeling mad that men have babies and life just goes on)
post #20 of 33
7/13/04 at 6:25am
Thread Starter 
I just wanted to say that I have no problem with someone else bf my babe or me bf another babe.

I dunno - maybe Im about it is b/c this is the first time I've heard of it.
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