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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A 30-year-old transgender woman has been able to breastfeed her child, the first ever case of induced lactation in a transgender woman to be documented in academic literature.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/14/transgender-woman-breastfeed-health
Is this a step too far? Bearing in mind the baby will be exposed to the cocktail of drugs that the woman was taking to induce milk. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A 30-year-old transgender woman has been able to breastfeed her child, the first ever case of induced lactation in a transgender woman to be documented in academic literature.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/14/transgender-woman-breastfeed-health
Is this a step too far? Bearing in mind the baby will be exposed to the cocktail of drugs that the woman was taking to induce milk. "
Was the woman taking a 'cocktail' of drugs? The article refers only to her HRT regimen and a medication commonly used to treat nausea but also to promote lactation.
From that it seems unlikely that her milk would be any different to any other mother being treated for difficulty lactating while taking contraception or HRT. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think the ethical argument has finished. What we all see from medical advances either embraces or upsets depending on personal or religious view point. So I think it's great and probably an unbelievable experience. There can be nothing except giving birth for closeness between mother and child. |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
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It must be a wonderful experience for the individual. But to answer your question - I have no idea.
I prefer to leave judgements like that to those qualified to answer - the clinicians.
And I'm sure if they thought the child was being harmed, well, it wouldn't be in the papers, I guess. |
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