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So, you've just finished your fetish story about a lactating pregnant woman who washes her nipples with soap and water every day. What's wrong with this story?
Lots.
Today, as a lactating mother, I will attempt to dispel some of the myths surrounding lactation and pregnancy, which will help make your stories more believable:
Myth: Pregnant women lactate.
Fact: Women cannot lactate without the right hormonal support. Women also cannot just spontaneously lactate without proper nipple stimulation, such as a baby nursing or using a breast pump.
Cases have been reported of adopting moms lactating by nursing their baby regularly and sometimes taking galactogogues (medicines with a side effect of lactation; most are not originally designed for this purpose). Galactogogues stimulate prolactin, one of the two hormones necessary for lactation. Oxytocin, the other hormone, is stimulated by relaxation and "bonding" feelings with the baby. After a mom gives birth, both are naturally present.
Pregnancy is an example of a state in which there isn't the right hormonal support for lactation. If lactating women become pregnant, their milk supply would, in the majority of cases, dry up, because different hormones take over during pregnancy. It is impossible for women to lactate when pregnant the way they do, say, when nursing a two-month-old.
If you hear about colostrum, or pre-milk, that can show up during the second half of a pregnancy. It has more antibodies and protein than regular human milk and is clear or yellowish and there's just a drop or two of it, not spewing white streams of milk. Colostrum turns into regular milk after about 2-5 days post-birth. When that transformation happens, it causes engorgement.
Myth: Lactating women's breasts are always engorged.
Fact: Mother Nature sends in a huge oversupply to start with, but the mother's body adjusts to make milk on a supply-and-demand basis after a couple of days. If the baby doesn't feed as much one day as usual, the mother's breasts will become engorged, which she can relieve by pumping or hand expressing. If the baby continues to drop nursings, the mother's supply will go down and the engorgement will disappear.
Myth: Pregnant/lactating women are always horny.
Fact: Pregnant women, like any other women, go through phases where they are hornier than other times. Their heightened senses and higher genital sensitivity both work for and against better sex during pregnancy.
Also, keep in mind for lactating women that if the baby doesn't sleep through the night yet, the mother might rather catch up on sleep than have sex, and this is completely normal. Another thing that can happen is because the hormonal balance is different and ovulation is often halted, the mother may simply have no interest in sex. This is normal, too, and the return of periods and ovulation combined with the baby sleeping better will often cause a resurge in the mother's horniness similar to prepregnancy.
Myth: Pregnant and lactating women are supposed to wash their breasts with soap and water every day because the bacteria can be harmful for the baby.
Fact: Pregnant and lactating women are supposed to avoid using soap on their breasts. Colostrum and breast milk both have anti-infective properties that are actually stronger than soap! In addition, using soap on the breasts early in pregnancy can increase nipple sensitivity and pain. Women in industrialized countries have access to clean, warm water with which to wash their breasts and often go around with their breasts covered so no dirt gets on them. Their breasts are clean enough!
Myth: Nursing makes women horny/Nursing turns women off.
Fact: Nursing makes women horny/Nursing turns women off. Depends on the women and how well nursing is established. Most women report nipple pain sometimes accompanied by soreness or cracking during the first 4-6 weeks of nursing, until their nipples adjust to the stretching and pressure. This painful process does not turn on most women. After that, it can go either way.
If it does make them horny, this is perfectly normal and is nature's way of both making sure the baby gets fed because it's a pleasurable experience for mom and perpetuating the species because mom will then seek out dad to make more babies. If it turns them off, it is probably because they feel that their body is for baby only and they feel too "touched out" by the end of the day to devote energy to sex. Either feeling is normal.
Myth: Lactating women need to use special creams and lotions on their nipples to prevent soreness and cracking.
Fact: Lanolin is the only medically approved product for that purpose and does not need to be washed off before feeding the baby. Lansinoh makes one and so does Medela.
Myth: Lactating women spray milk when they cum.
Fact: Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Depends on how recently they last nursed and whether they are exclusively breastfeeding or not. In other words, if their supply is lower, spraying during orgasm is less likely.
I will add more to this piece as I think of more myths and facts, but I think this covers the most major errors I've seen. Please, if you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact me.
Good luck writing your pregnancy and lactation fetish stories!
- COMMENTS
animal99over 5 years agoExcellent info... not just for writers, but even for readers of such stories.
Thank You WordGoddess, for setting the record straight.
Anonymousover 6 years agoMy 1st pregnancy I started leaking colostrum at 14 weeks and there was enough to require breast pads if I didn't want to soak through my bra and shirt on a fairly regular basis. 2nd time round I was still nursing my eldest (10 months old when I conceived), and I continued to produce milk, not colostrum, throughout the entire pregnancy, even after I started to reduce her number of feeds. I even tandem nursed them, as do plenty of women. Given the right stimulation, no reason why women can't continue to lactate during pregnancy at all.
Tigersmanover 9 years agoDoctors advise pregnant women from allowing their mates from sucking on their breast especially in the last several weeks before delivery as it can lead to premature delivery. Colostrum which is the first milk is responsible for passing on the Mother's natural immunities until the baby's immune system kicks in around six months
Anonymousover 10 years agoYou are awesome, I have hated some stories because of using misinformation.
Anonymousover 11 years agoI've seen my wife go from dry to instantly ready to feed our infant when our 1.3 year old is crying. The let down reflex is a part of lactation and not part of like any stories anywhere that I've seen. Just saying.
Anonymousover 11 years agoWhile I'm no writer this was informative for when me and mine do consider children.
Anonymousabout 14 years agoLactation capacity is to a point hormonal, though the hormones , oxytoxin etc., can be very much levered by parts of the brain and a reduction of inhibitions.
A basic level of nipple stimulation with an enhanced awareness of positive sensations even recognised as partly sensual and the primitive desire to meet the needs of an infant as well and if a partner is present expressing enthusiasm over the breasts as well as their desirability when a lactating ( or developing physiological changes to that) equals a lactation readiness & capacity without much difficulty or extensive efforts.
Lactation in even relatively early pregnancy at copious amounts is possible or none when the lactation process is mentally viewed as (heaven forbid attitude) anything but as technically moraly non sensual correct nutrition provision.
While I won't go into the lengthy tale of discovery, I had experienced both sides, the Mrs Proper baby nutrition side with a Mr Trying to Fit in Proper Also husband. Then came a couple of surprise responses later - like the shock horror of after weaning my second - desiring suckling again !??( acknowledged & disbandoned as not "proper" feeling ) and a strong let down reflex a decade after breastfeeding when a dippy friends new born was crying to be fed ( his mum still out to her ceasarean anesthetic). It was at 50 yrs of age my NPD multiple personality boyfriend in one of his expermintaley lively states provided the stimulus, enthusiasm as well as pregnancy ( miscarried under his crazy stress) that showed how easily lactation could be achieved as well as the desire to keep it up as highly pleasurable. Aside from that persona's temporary state ( as others he went through) he did for that time facilitate the positives regarding little effort regarding lactation, breast nipple stimulation that were possible plus what I coulld do anytime if inclined to relactate as well as realising how easier it would have been to breastfeed when I had my kids ( I did keep it up with stages of sheer hard effort) had both my former husband and I had a more expansive understanding and sensual appreciation involved in lactation.
The only point I agree with, is that in a conventional scenario like with my ex husband, is that a lactating female can feel she has enough baby demands on her body not to feel sexy with a man expecting sex in the way it was pre baby,as well as myself being sensually limited to be appropriate with baby.I hadn't worked out that sensual with baby wasn't wrong as it was still different from fully sexual.
It would have taken ages to refute individualy all the claims made, hence my rather general response.
Anonymousover 14 years agoIam 36 weeks pregant and have leaked milk the whole time also you do not need a special cream let a little milk out and rub it into your nipples
Anonymousover 15 years agoI've known more than a few pregnant women that nursed completely through all but their first pregnancies and have had no supply issues. Again - this depends on how established the nursling is and how long one has nursed. Lactation CAN be induced in multiple ways - not just thru use of a pump or lactattion inducing medicines or herbal preparations. Will it always produce milk? not initially maybe but it is entirely depoendant on sustaining the relationship that is established. There are more than a few couples involved in Adult nursing relationships that have induced lactation without ever even having had a child. There are also more than a few couples that have had an ANR during a pregnancy.
So, while you are generally right the statements are jsut a bit to "blanket" to hold a lot of water (or milk as the case may be) for me - a woman that has lactated during pregnancy and who has witnessed more than a few of my extended nursing mom friends nurse their 2 & 3 year olds thru the pregnancies of their siblings
Anonymousabout 16 years agoI'll agree with everything except this one. I've seen more than one or two very clearly pregnant women lactating heavily. In my experience it's always been late in the pregnancy but certainly before birth.
