Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Milkmen

Mrs He-Man showed me a kinda freaky article about the recent scientific findings on male breastfeeding. This study was based on a father who expressed regularly months before his son was born and eventually produced enough milk to feed his newborn baby. Apparently with the help of modern medications and sufficient stimulation, the male human body can produce enough mammary glands to produce milk..yikes!

I am not sure what have i done or the intentions behind for me to be forwarded of such article but i should admit that it did freak me out a lil`. Let say one day, the modern/future fathers are more open to such idea of breastfeeding their own baby...can you imagine how would it change things? I thought of some possibilities and perhaps you can add to this never ending list.

First of all there will be no excuse for you to skip the midnight/early morning baby feeds. Provided with enough supporting documentations and evidence that you will breastfeed..they might be entitled for 70 days paternity leave (great stuff eh?), more private rooms to cater for breastfeeding fathers i.e. father`s room. New business opportunities i.e. new subsidiary for Mothercare..."Fathercare". Maternity bras for men and things that comes with it..male breast pads, male breast pumps etc. There will be less issues on public breastfeeding as men are generally ok to expose that part of their bodies to public etc etc

Out of curiosity i googled on this topic a bit more and was surprised to see the studies and things that have been done on this topic. In Egypt a fatwa has been released to permit such things. Studies also discovered that some native African men do breastfeed their babies as some of their mothers died during giving birth. On top of that more and more medications are being develop to cater for such thing as there seems to be an increasing demand for it in some parts of the world.

Weird eh...but its true. To all you brave parents out there..take the challenge! As for me.. think i will stick to the conventional method of bottle feeding..."cepat di masak sedap di mum mum"..till then

Cheers!

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