Talk:Lactation
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Is there any reason not to merge this with breastfeeding? Kickstart70 23:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes - Lactation is much broader in scope than just human breastfeeding. Peculiarities and habits of other mammals would fit better here than there.
- That was the case before I made this article - I was rather silly to mention lactation in an article on sheep and have it redirect to an article on human breastfeeding. Lactation also has a wider scope than breastfeeding.--Peta 06:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps this should also be mentioned (related to the hormone thing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation -GameCreator
- I was looking for more information on lactation for my anatomy class, specifically females who lactate even though they were never pregnant. What causes it and what not. Maybe more information on this will be helpful to expanding this article.
Is it possible to produce milk when a woman is NOT pregnant?
- Yes, females produce milk after they give birth to feed the child they just had. Rockpocket 02:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Human lactation
The human lactation section has been brought over from the breastfeeding article, partly to add a lot more information about lactation to this article as well as to reduce the size of the breastfeeding article which is much too large. Ciotog 02:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
The one question I had that this article did not answer is how does lacatation cease?71.225.102.120 03:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unsourced IP modification
What are we to make of this diff?--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 17:39, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- It concurs with the rest of the sentence. By definition the second trimester only begins in the 4th month. However the trimesters are fairly arbitary things, there's no reason why it would begin at exactly the 4th month/second trimester, it may very well not be that consistent and may vary from the 3-4th month Nil Einne (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
