Lactation

[willbow]

Back ... I've been thinking about the best way to communicate what I have to say .... If you've noticed I tend to write in long sentences .. It's just me .. as I find that logic is linear and perhaps is "essentially" correct .. but true understanding is much less so. So forgive me for being non-sequitorial, I will do my best to make it worth your effort.

I want to touch on the physiological aspects of inducing lactation. Believe it or not it is fairly straight forward. What has been said about it being a matter of hormones is correct. The two hormones of particular interest being prolactin and oxytocin.

Prolactin is present in trace amts both males and females, of course much more so in females .. one can say that the normal higher amts present in the female is part of the very definition of being "female". There is also a matter of receptors but that is beyond the scope of this brief (I don't know what to call it) essay perhaps.

Prolactin is actually an orgasm supressant, and no, this is not a bad thing. It is what allows women to be multi-orgasmic. If you could show it on a graph or oscilloscope it would like like sine waves of widely varying amplitude over a longer time period (a note from me: believe it or not this is an "essay" about tits!) Men, on the otherhand, tend to "spend all their cookies at one time" so-to-speak. *GRINS* It's just the way it is

Ok .. the important stuff .. and these are ballpark figures but .. prolactin levels rise sharply (as opposed to the normal trace amts) with orgasm - about 10X. With pregnancy prolactin levels rise 100x or higher.

Oxytocin, also called the "love hormone", is what it is. Trust me, if you had an orgasm your oxytocin levels rose sharply. It also is the mechanism of the letdown reflex in the lactating woman. There are a lot of other things, but, in a nutshell, I think I've explained it pretty good.

Believe it or not the physiology of it is just that simple.

All this is published stuff - I don't think I've done very much more than reiterate it.

I'm running long again so please forgive if I need to go. I will continue I promise.


Thankyou so much redEVA for your encouraging words

I'm not totally sure what you mean by "professionally". I suppose from the physiological aspect it is a "professional" opinion.

There is a topic I will broach in later installments about "professional" assistance for women who would like "treatments" from a "therapist" to achieve this goal. I do this actually

I don't think in terms of financial remuneration for my "services" as this opens up legal implications and grey areas that I would not even want to try to reconcile in any kind of way. I think you can understand this. I don't encourage quid pro quo sexual favors either but am not totally closed to it - It has to feel like the "right thing to do". We all know when that is I am sure. HOWEVER, I would be loath to refuse a sushi dinner every now and again LOL ... I mean real sushi

Gotta go .. please let me know what you think because I am writing this in realtime

until next time

Be Well