Can a women in her fifties breast feed?
No, because when you first are pregnate, you have fresh milk,
but after it jst rotens and dries.
The first attempt to answer this question shows a profound
ignorance about how a woman's breasts produce milk. This is said
not to be mean, but please do your research. In a nutshell, the
lactation process starts when a woman becomes pregnant and her body
begins to produce the hormones that stimulate milk production. Once
the baby is born and begins to nurse, it's suckling provides
additional stimulation to the mother's breast and her milk begins
to flow. Each time the baby nurses it further stimulates the
mother's breasts to produce more milk. The previous answer makes it
sound like there is a fixed supply of breast milk and will go bad
after a period of time. In reality, breast milk is produced on a
"on demand" basis. In general, as long as a woman's breasts receive
the needed stimulation they will produce milk. Now on to answering
the original question. A woman who has stopped breast feeding some
time ago or even a woman who has never been pregnant can induce
lactation and begin to produce breast milk. With the heavy use of a
breast pump over a period of weeks along with a healthy diet and
adding some herbs that help with lactation, she will begin to
produce breast milk to be shared with the one she loves.
