Hi, I just wanted to know what people thought about this,(I saw it on the pregnant-man who really was a woman docu)
At the end of the docu it showed the female partner who was not the natural mother explaing she had been on hormone medication or some treatment that stimulates Oestrogen production in non-pregnant women and apparently the women can actually begin breast feeding!?!
So this treatment is available for say adoptive mothers who before have never been able to breast feed their adopted babies.
It also opens up a new area for Gay and Lesbian couples where the non-pregnant partner or both parents can breast feed(ie. 2 female parents)
I know that in some cultures and even in western culture some groups of mothers share child-care and breast feeding although natural rather than using medication.
I really don't know what to think, in a way it provides more equality and more options for babies to bond with non-biological parents.
My main concern is not necessarily with the dynamic of the family but more about what the consequences for the baby as it grows up from the mother(s ) taking unnatural medication. Especially in the case of the women who had been taking medication to become a man apart but stopped to have a child and is or has had a second child.
Cheers JZ7