If you had a baby post-menopause, would you still be able to breastfeed?

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My friend's DH reckons not but I don't know whether you need the ovulating hormones to bf or whether the mere act of carrying a baby and giving birth would produce the hormones required. Obviously I am talking about women who have IVF with donor eggs to conceive. Just curious about the biology of it all.

OOh, interesting.Never thought of this.
Presumably, yes as women can breastfeed for years and years.

No, neither had I until he pronounced very confidently 'well of course, they wouldn't be able to breastfeed'. And then I realised I didn't know one way or the other. So annoying not to be able to slap him down