<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a2e9f118-8105-48eb-bd7a-a049bfa93a71/1CA7A61F-B08E-4200-B4F3-70B0F50A46C5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193" href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mentalfloss.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193"><DIV><SPAN class="blog_title"><A href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193">Today’s Question: Can Men Breastfeed?</A></SPAN> <BR /><SPAN class="posted_by">by <SPAN class="author"><A title="Posts by the mag" href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/author/the-mag/">the mag</A></SPAN> - November 13, 2008 - 6:57 PM</SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193"><P><DIV><IMG alt="Question-Day.jpg" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Question-Day.jpg" id="image20194" /><STRONG>Q: Can Men Breastfeed?</STRONG></DIV> <STRONG>A:</STRONG> Odd as it seems, men can lactate. In their 1896 book, <EM>Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine</EM>, Dr. George Gould and Dr. Walter Pyle recount several occurrences of men breastfeeding their young. The stories include a sailor who put his son to his breast to quiet him and started producing milk; a South American peasant who sustained his child with his own <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">breast </SPAN><SPAN class="kLink">milk</SPAN></FONT></A> during his wife’s illness; and a Chippewa man who put his infant to his breast following the death of his wife and produced enough milk to rear the child. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193">men produce small amounts of prolactin during their lifetimes. It’s released after orgasms, for example, and may be responsible for the associated feelings of satisfaction and relaxation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20193">Under the appropriate psychological circumstances, however, the mind can demand that the body produce more of the <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">hormone</SPAN></FONT><SPAN id="preLoadWrap1"><DIV id="preLoadLayer1"><IMG src="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif" /></DIV></SPAN></A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CA7A61F-B08E-4200-B4F3-70B0F50A46C5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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