In a world’s first, a transgender woman was able to breastfeed baby by taking hormone therapy for three months.
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‘She was able to produce at least eight ounces of milk per day using a breast pump.
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The 30-year-old was put on hormone replacement therapy for three months before the child’s birth using the drug domperidone, obtained from Canada. With frequent breast pumping, she was able to produce enough milk to breastfeed the baby for six weeks and continued doing so for another six months along with nutritious food.
Dr. Tamar Reisman, who treated the woman said, “This is a huge breakthrough in medicine for transgender people. We are happy that the patient shared her experience with us, and we are happy to help our patients build happy, healthy, transgender families."
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"We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman," concluded the researchers.
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