I researched this theme in Internet since an adoptive mother contacted me trough my blog in order to ask me this and this is what I found:
Will this be true? Adoptive mother can breastfeed. Breastfeeding is induced trough a product called prolactina. When she has the breast formed to segregate milk, another product based on ocitocina is used like drops in the nose, so that 15 to 20 days after starts breastfeeding ... (Ricardo Deis)... this and one audio is what the article say http://ceride.prisma.org.ar/ID/000100000037
It is interesting, but I wouldn’t do it, i copy the information if someone is interested, though. I also found http://www.llli.org/Lang/Espanol/faqadopt.html common questions: Breastfeeding an adopted baby. In this, as in every other of our documents “FAQ’s (preguntas comunes) the information has been prepared by Milk League leaders. It talks about interesting issues about breastfeeding. This site has several points of view and it is possible that you don’t use it all. This information is of general nature and it doesn’t want to be medical advice of any kind.
If you have any serious problem with breastfeeding, talk directly to a leader of the Milk League. Please ask a health care professional about any medical problem since the Milk League leaders don’t practice medicine.
CASE 1 :
I want to know if I can breastfeed an adopted kid. I have a seven year old kid that I breastfed when he was a baby. I can’t have another kid because I have a problem in my uterus, so I’m in the process of adopting a newly born girl. Somebody told me that I can produce milk, even though I haven’t been pregnant. I want to know if all this is possible and what I should do about it. Thanks for the information you can give me.
ANSWER 1:
Dear friend:
Congratulations on your decision to adopt a baby! I wish you the best. Almost all mothers can produce at least a little bit of milk. Not having being pregnant doesn’t have an effect on the capacity of producing milk. Many adoptive mothers can provoke the breastfeeding using an double electric extractor every two or three ours, before or after the arrival of the baby. Breasts massage is also recommended before using the milk extractor before the baby gets home. When the baby arrives, you have the option to breastfeed using something called “Supplement for breastfeeding”. This thing is a bottle that you fill with milk for the baby and hang around your neck. Two thin tubes go trough the cover. For this tubes the milk passes and this is placed close to the nipples and are fixed with masking tape of medical use In this way, the baby gets enough milk and at the same time stimulates your body to produce your own milk. The key for everything is that the most stimulation the breasts receive – from the baby of the device to extract milk – the most possibilities that the mother produces more milk. There are commercial supplements and a home made can be constructed. Ask a leader of the Milk League in order to have information about these devices.
As mother that wants to breastfeed her daughter, it is important that you define your goals according to the breastfeeding, since the capacity to produce milk changes a lot. Even mothers that have breastfeed before, can be subject of not to being able one more time to do it. One reasonable goal is, therefore, to give some nutrition for your babies (or maybe all). You, while enjoying the closeness and love that the breastfeeding provides. Your baby will love you anyways!!!!!
I hope this information be useful . I’m willing to any consult and orientation you might need. I congratulate again and I would like you to tell me the arrival of the bay and to know how you are.
Carefully, Congras.
PD: This answer is based on the information that appears in the web site of the Milk League. The bibliography are from The Book of answers of the Milk League and Breastfeeding an adopted baby.
CASE 2:
I have a friend that has adopted a 15 day old. He is currently one month old. Is it possible thatt and adoptive mother can breastfeed his son and learn how to do it.
ANSWER 2:
Hi friend,
You really are a good friend. I wish we all have friends like you, worried in that way. One possibility is the use of a “breastfeeding machine”, a bottle that contains artificial milk or a milk bench that is glued to the breasts of the mother. When the baby drinks the milk, it stimulates the breasts of the mother for its production. She can also be stimulated by a milk taker or his husband, if they agree with this. Sooner or later you will produce milk. If you don’t produce enough milk, your baby for sure will receive all that mother heat that she has for him. It’s a matter of patience, in which she’s going to need lots of support of people around, so that they can help her and not press her. It is possible that she produces milk even if she hasn’t had kids. I encourage her to attend one group of the Milk League in this area.
Information checked by Mónica Tesone, February 18th 2007.
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