Suck/pump. Starting with 5 minutes three times a day if I recount correctly.
What happens during pregnancy seems to be high levels of estrogen and progesterone, which increase prolactin levels and inhibit lactation. Followed by a drop of estrogen and progesterone levels, but prolactin staying high for some time and lactation starts. The baby sucking then results in more prolactin being released.
The three times a day is actually for pregnant women to induce it early. There are drugs who can directly increase prolactin. But it sounds like increasing estrogen and progesterone for some time is the most used way, since that can be done with birth control pills.
Prolactin has side effects:
Elevated levels of prolactin decrease the levels of sex hormones—estrogen in women and testosterone in men.
You can manually induce lactation if doing so chemically isn’t to your tastes
Not that I have a problem with chemicals (obviously), but…
How would one do that manually?
Suck/pump. Starting with 5 minutes three times a day if I recount correctly.
What happens during pregnancy seems to be high levels of estrogen and progesterone, which increase prolactin levels and inhibit lactation. Followed by a drop of estrogen and progesterone levels, but prolactin staying high for some time and lactation starts. The baby sucking then results in more prolactin being released.
Huh. Fascinating.
Does it work regardless of horomones or does it require estrogen, progesterone, etc?
I edited my previous post.
The three times a day is actually for pregnant women to induce it early. There are drugs who can directly increase prolactin. But it sounds like increasing estrogen and progesterone for some time is the most used way, since that can be done with birth control pills.
Prolactin has side effects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactin#In_humans
Prolactin is also part of the mix that results in the male refractory period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex)