do women secrete milk from breasts in normal course or is it only during pregnancy?
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Breast milk is produced during pregnancy, and is only present when a baby needs to be fed. Production stops when the baby stops consuming the milk. If you are having sex with someone who is not pregnant, or has not been breast feeding within the past few months, you will have no problems.\n\nNate E.
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nope. But your boobs might excrete milk.
411231
Lactation, producing breast milk, is rare in women who aren't pregnant or nursing a baby — and especially in women who have never been pregnant. A whitish discharge from the nipple may not actually be milk. A common cause of abnormal nipple discharge is fibrocystic disease which isn't serious.\n\nCauses of abnormal lactation include:\nA noncancerous (benign) tumor of the pituitary gland \nUnderactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) \nA side effect of some medications \nRarely, malignant tumors of the pituitary gland or hypothalamus \n\nHowever, since this is not normal, any nipple discharge should be evaluated by a doctor.  Please tell your friend that she MUST go to the doctor to be on the safe side.  It will also put her mind at ease.
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if you miss you next period that could mean you arepregant ,moring sickness,or if your boobs get tender they can produce milk glands it looks like little white bumps on your nipples,http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/pregnancy/a/pregnancysigns.htm
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The lactation system inside your breasts resemble a tree. The milk glands (the leaves) are grapelike clusters of cells high up in the breast that make milk. Milk travels from these glands down through the milk ducts (the branches). These ducts then widen beneath the areola (the dark area surrounding the nipple), forming milk sinuses (the tree trunk), which then empties into the approximately twenty openings in your nipple (like the channels going down to the roots of the tree). These milk sinuses are located beneath your areola.\n\nTo empty these milk sinuses effectively, your baby's gums must be positioned over them so that baby's jaws compress the sinuses where the milk is pooled. If baby sucks only on your nipple, only a little milk will be drawn out, and your nipple will be irritated unnecessarily. Remember the golden rule of effective latch-on: Babies suck on areolas, not nipples. Baby must have enough of your areolas in her mouth to get the milk out.\n\nYour baby's sucking stimulates nerves in your nipple that send messages to the pituitary gland in you brain to secrete the hormone prolactin. Prolactin surges encourage continued milk production, which goes on around the clock. As your baby continues sucking, the sensors in your nipple signal the pituitary gland to secrete another hormone, oxytocin. This hormone causes the elastic tissue around each of the many milk glands to contract, squeezing a large supply of milk through the milk ducts into the sinuses and out the nipple. This is called the milk ejection reflux , or MER. The milk may come out so fast that it leaks out the side of your baby's mouth. If you were pumping or expressing by hand, you would see the milk spray out in every direction.\n\nThe first milk your baby receives at each feeding is the foremilk, which is thin like skim milk because of low fat content. As baby continues to suck, more oxytocin brings on phase two, squeezing out the later milk (called hindmilk), which is much higher in fat and slightly higher in protein and, therefore, helps baby gain weight and helps baby's tummy feel full. Consider this creamier hindmilk "grow milk."\n\nThe more milk that is removed from your breasts, the more milk your body makes to replace it. Frequent removal of milk from your breasts by your baby or by a pump will sti9mulate your body to produce more milk. When your baby breastfeeds less, the body responds by cutting back on milk production. This supply and demand system is how mothers produce enough milk for twins or even triplets.
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Breast secretion or your pituitary hormones should be tested to see what is going on.  Have you ever been pregnant or breastfed a baby before?  THAT is a KEY question, even if on an IUD right now. If so, some women can retain-continue to produce milk in breasts for a long time after weaning, but one year after weaning is average-OK, esp if you have lots of nipple stimulation with sex and or have lots of orgasms.  Longer than a year could be considered abnormal, and hormone tests would then be given by a doctor to see if there is a pituitary imbalance of some kind. Oxytocin hormone from posterior pituitary is the hormone of nursing-letdown and orgasm and will keep the milk letdown continuing even after weaning.  \n\nWomen who have breastfed before and ARE nursing do have spurts of OXYTOCIN and release of milk easier than other women and can letdown (leak milk) when thinking about or hearing or seeing babies, esp their own!!!!\n\nHOWEVER......Women who have never been pregnant or nursed a baby CAN make milk and can nurse an adopted baby, but it is REAL hard, definitely is a HORMONAL WONDER and takes a long time and MUCH dedication to get the breasts to develop this way, but it can be done, esp with the use of a LACTAID device the woman wears while she feeds formula to a baby.  Maybe you would make a great "wet nurse!" Find a lactation consultant in your area to help you?  Call local hospital L&D dept and ask for the list of lactation consultants available.\n\nLots of places are looking for disease free breast milk for babies who need it. If any of this sounds of interest, contact me.  I am also a lactation consultant, nursed my kids total of 5+ years and still had milk in my breasts 7 years after weaning without any pituitary abnormality. Odd, yes!\n\nBreast discharge is also a warning sign of breast cancer.  If not that, there are some women who have serious psychosomatic causes of breast leakage that have NOT been linked to hormonal abnormalities or pituitary tumors.  Quite a complex topic, but needs testing.  Best wishes!
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It's normal. You don't want them to go away. The bumps are where your milk ducts are so you can breast feed your baby. You can probably notice them more if you are aroused or if your nipples get cold.
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Mother’s milk contains antibodies which are protective and essential for the new born as that provides (bestows) passive immunity from infections.  However if the mother is advised to take antibiotics for some infection that she has while she is lactating, certain of them may be secreted in the milk.
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They can still breast feed because breast augmentation does not interfere with the mammary gland which is what actually gives the milk.  The rest of the breast is just fatty tissue.
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They get bigger with pregnancy but usually get small again after the baby's born.  Altho... Mine went from a B to a full C and stayed there after my first.  She was breastfed.  I didn't breastfeed my 2nd and my breasts actually ended up a bit less than a full C.  I breastfed my 3rd and I ended up staying in a D.  Let's just say if I have another it'll definitely be breastfed.
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nothing will happen to the baby, physically, other than it may reject the breast, it is easier for a baby to eat from a bottle. And... you may not produce enough milk unless you are regularly pumping. Either nurse or don't it is probably confusing.
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NO!!!!! LOL YOUR BOOBS WILL LOOK GREAT WHEN THAIR FULL OF MILK ...AFTER.. THATS WHEN YOU WILL NEED IT
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The March of Dimes (MOD 2002) has reported, "Small amounts of alcohol do get into breast milk and are passed on to the baby. One study found that the breastfed babies of women who had one or more drinks a day were a little slower in acquiring motor skills (such as crawling and walking) than babies who had not been exposed to alcohol. Large amounts of alcohol also may interfere with ejection of milk from the breast. For these reasons, the March of Dimes recommends that women abstain from alcohol while they are nursing."
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As pregnancy continues the mammary glands will begin producing milk for lactation.  This is the ultimate cause of the soreness and will likely vary on a daily basis but worsen as the glands become enlarged.
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Its completly normal! There just filled with milk. And be blessed because once you start breast feeding they'll start to shrink. Maybe it will maybe it won't.
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you are not lactating... wat kind of a stupid answer is that? back to you, i donno about you but  like a week or 2 b4 my period my breast gets tender.. but when ur pregnant this also happens so it could be that,  but if not ,then u have nothing to worry about its maybe just you period.. take a pregnancy test then..
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if the woman is lactating (producing milk) HIV may be passed through her milk.  other than that, no