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In addition, Neil is available to support induced lactation for partners.
What's the betting that Neil isn't just talking about female partners inducing lactation?
Newman Goldfarb has been researched for women, but there is no long term medical peer reviewed research that it's safe in males, as La Leche League would have us believe.
Though Domperidone doesn't cross the blood/brain barrier I read that it was double the dose and when the father (assuming genetic relation between the mother's partner and the newborn) does the feeding it can reduce the demands in the mothers milk and impact her supply.
It is sad for La Leche League that they don’t realise that by embracing gender ideology and queer theory they surrender everything they previously held dear such as the importance of the family unit and the mother-baby bond within that unit.
According to their philosophy
“Mother and baby need to be together early and often to establish a satisfying relationship and an adequate milk supply.”
From the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
“Partners will want to connect with their babies, too, and when they see the closeness and intimacy of the breastfeeding relationship, feeding the baby themselves looks like the obvious way to do it. But there are a gazillion ways to bond with the baby... in fact, partners have the key role of teaching the baby that love sometimes comes without food. Some partners take over bath time. Your partner might like to let the baby have daily “tummy time” by leaning back on the couch, baby on chest, or by wearing the baby in a wrap or sling (tummy time doesn’t have to be horizontal!).
Partners can be wonderful comforters. Babies like different voices, from low and rumbly to soft and motherly. Most partners soon figure out their own repertoire of baby-soothing tricks. They will be different from the birth mother’s. But “different” can help!
Partners can often help by doing everything but feeding.”
So there appears to be a recognition that the mother who gave birth to the baby is the one with whom the feeding relationship should be established. Anyone else feeding the baby is perhaps doing it because he or she wants to and not because it is the best interests of the mother or baby. Mother and baby need to establish a balance of supply and demand. The mother needs the confidence to feel that she can do it herself which may be undermined by a third party’s involvement. The baby needs lots of practice at his or her mother’s breast to establish a good technique developed for the mother’s own particular anatomy. The mother’s milk is responsive, changing all the time according to the baby’s needs and the environment around mother and baby.
Dr Nils Bergman writes of the fourth trimester, a period of approximately 9 months after the birth when the baby continues to be physically and psychologically dependent on the mother and when nothing should come between them for the optimal health and well-being of both.