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Brighton NHS trust recommends drug-induced male breastfeeding in their maternity protocols

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zibzibara · 20/05/2023 08:58

https://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/maternity/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/01/MP005-Perinatal-Care-for-Trans-and-Non-Binary-People.pdf

This is part of their maternity protocols for perinatal care. In the Infant feeding section:

"5.5.7 Non-gestational parents may wish to participate in feeding their
infants using their own bodies. Cis women who have previously breastfed may have the most success in relactating. Trans women and cis women who have not been pregnant may also be able to induce lactation to some extent. Methods for inducing lactation include using galactagoues and physical stimulation. Alternatively, some families choose to use supplemental nursing systems with expressed milk or formula."

They cite this website in the reference list: http://www.milkjunkies.net/2013/05/trans-women-and-breastfeeding-personal.html

Notably they do not cite any source which has tested the composition of any such male secretions for safety and nutritional value.

https://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/maternity/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/01/MP005-Perinatal-Care-for-Trans-and-Non-Binary-People.pdf

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YouJustDoYou · 20/05/2023 09:09

On what plane of existence is that for the baby's benefit?!!

WhiteBloatus · 20/05/2023 09:08

Absolutely Disgusting. Where are the babies needs in all this? Who benefits from this and why? How an NHS service can be promoting this as an option is honestly horrifying

YouJustDoYou · 20/05/2023 09:07

Jesus fucking CHRIST, Brighton!!! They're vile there in the NHS, using babies to satisfy male kinks, that's honestly horrific.

dimorphism · 20/05/2023 09:05

Jesus wept. When I think of all the hassle I got for taking an antibiotic THAT IS SOMETIMES GIVEN TO NEWBORNS and told to stop breastfeeding, supplement, pump and dump and then reintroduce breastfeeding once the course had ended.

Surely this is medical negligence on a grand scale suggesting men breastfeed without any knowledge of the drugs in whatever they produce? There needs to be a legal challenge surely? Who the hell is going to step in and protect babies from this abuse?

Whatwouldscullydo · 20/05/2023 09:02

So women have everything they put into their bodies throughout pregnancy and breast feeding scrutinised and we are lucky if we get given anything more than a paracetamol to deal with pain. Yet this is ok? Wtf