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Prolactin is the pituitary hormone that promotes lactation.

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What hormone promotes glandular tissue during pregnancy and produces milk after the birth of an infant?

Prolactin or lactogenic Hormone (PRL) promotes glandular tissue during pregnancy and produces milk after the birth of an infant


What is prolactin?

Prolactin is a hormone produced the by the anterior pituitary which is controlled and stimulated bu infant suckling; stimulates growth of mammary glands and process of lactation; increased amounts during pregnancy; causes milk production


What is prolactin reflex?

Prolactin is a hormone produced the by the anterior pituitary which is controlled and stimulated bu infant suckling; stimulates growth of mammary glands and process of lactation; increased amounts during pregnancy; causes milk production


Where is prolactin located in the body?

Prolactin is a hormone that is primarily produced in the anterior pituitary gland and its target tissue is the mammary glands and stimulates the letdown, or secretion, of milk from the breasts for nursing an infant,


What hormone is associated with emotional bonding between a mother and her infant?

Oxytocin


How can you make yourself lactate after menopause?

The correct medical term for male lactation is male galactorrhea.Lactation requires mainly estrogen, progesterone and prolactin.Theoretically greatly increasing the levels of those hormones in your body should lead to some degree of lactation. But since you mammalian glands didn't develop in puberty like female ones do, the actual milk production will be very little. There are several medications which are known to cause galactorrheaas a side effect (f. ex. Tagametand Risperidone),also several foods are supposed to increase lactation (asparagus etc.). Pathologically galactorrheafrequently occurs in males with pituitary adenoma(tumor of the pituitary gland). Several observations made by allied doctors after treating the victims of concentration camps in WW2 also lead to the conclusion that the hormonal dysregulationcaused by starving can lead to galactorrheain males.Physiologically, due to a combination of the effects of maternal hormones before birth, prolactinand growth hormone passed through breast feeding and the postnatal pituitary and thyroid hormone surge in the infant, male galactorrheasometimes occurs in male and female newborns.


You want breast milk in your breast how can you get milk you them without being pregnant?

Women who adopt an infant can take the hormone Prolactin which will help start the lactation process, but direct stimulation is needed to continue producing - via a breast pump or manual nipple stimulation. Lactating is a supply and demand situation. Some drugs and herbs have a side effect of milk production, but you can also induce lactation via breast pumping, or heavy suckling from a willing partner.


Which hormones causes ejection of milk in the mammary ducts making it accessible for the infant?

The hormone "oxytocin" is responsible for milk letdown.


What is witch's milk?

Noun. Milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies, due to the large amount of female hormones responsible for lactation (prolactin) in the baby's body received from her mother which is producing these hormones in preparation for the lactation period. Also called "Neonatal Milk" or "Infant Galactorrhea", it is normal, and stops after 8 to 10 weeks after birth. Noun. Milk which belongs to a witch.


Women can rpoduce milk for how many year continuously?

For as long as necessary. Women can begin to lactate long after giving birth in circumstances where an infant needs milk, and women who have never given birth can also lactate in response to an infant's needs. Age has little to do with it, it's a hormonal response which means grandma or auntie can step in where a baby needs feeding. The baby's cry is enough to start the lactation process.


What is the meaning of infant?

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How can you prodouce more milk without being pregnant?

there are teas and supplements you can take that will help you to produce milk, if you have delivered a baby and are nursing. Mothers that adopt an infant can be prescribed hormones, by their doctors that will help to produce milk to feed their babies. Call a lactation consultant in your area for further info.