I know that pregnancy activates hormones that make the breasts lactate, but when does it stop? I’ve heard weird stories of children being beast fed up until they were 16 so like how do you stop producing milk? Does your body automatically stop making milk after a day or so of no breastfeeding?
Like I know getting pregnant does alter the breasts and make them big but eventually they will come back to normal right?
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Yes, the breasts does stop making milk once you stop breastfeeding. It can be a bit of a problem to stop suddenly though but if you step it down the milk production will decrease by itself until it stops. There used to be a profession called “wet nurse” where women would continue to breastfeed other babies for a living even years after their own children had been weened off. There are even some cases of people starting to lactating without being pregnant so that they could become a wet nurse.
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