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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: male breastfeeding
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Date: 18 Feb 88 20:04:27 GMT
References: <1686@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <1686@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> jack@cs.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>[Craig Werner claimed that male breastfeeding was impossible because men
>don't have ductal tissue].

I seemed to have missed the referenced article.  However, I have to agree
that Craig is wrong on this one (someone note the date (-: ).  The La
Leche League (a breast-feeding advocacy organization) is quite positive on
the subject and routinely asks if the father would like to breast-feed in
cases where the mother can't or won't.  Though it usually requires hormone
injections to set the machinery in motion, there's no anatomical reason to
prevent most men from breast-feeding.

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