when do boobs develop milk?

Answer 1

within 3 days after delivering a baby

Answer 2

Quoting from the Breastfeeding articule in Wikipedia:

"Lactation without pregnancy
Although it is not widely known in developed countries, women who have never been pregnant are sometimes able to stimulate lactation sufficient to breastfeed. This is called "induced lactation", while a woman who has lactated before and re-starts is said to "relactate". If the nipples are stimulated as in breastfeeding for a while (such as by a breast pump or actual suckling), eventually the breasts will begin to produce milk which can be used to feed a baby. Once established, lactation adjusts to demand. For this reason, adoptive mothers, usually initially in conjunction with some form of supplementation, such as a supplemental nursing system, are able to breastfeed their infants and young children [28]. There is thought to be little or no difference in milk composition whether lactation is induced or a result of pregnancy. Rare accounts of male lactation (as distinct from galactorrhea) exist in the medical literature.

Some couples may choose to induce lactation as a sexual practice; see Erotic lactation.

Additionally, some drugs, primarily atypical antipsychotics such as Risperdal, may cause lactation in both women and men."

So, a woman does not need to be pregnant or have been pregnant to create milk. An example of this in history is the wet nurse, who is a woman who nurses --often wealthy or royalty-- babies who are not her own.

Answer 3

They are, if you want to refer to them by their primary function, mammary glands. Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and are the characteristic of mammals which gave the class its name.

The development of mammary glands is controlled by hormones. The mammary glands exist in both sexes, but they are rudimentary until puberty when in response to ovarian hormones, they begin to develop in the female. Estrogen promotes formation, while testosterone inhibits it.

Colostrum is secreted in late pregnancy and for the first few days after giving birth. Colostrum (also known as beestings or first milk) is a form of milk produced - thick and yellowish - it has high concentrations of nutrients and immunities, but it is small in quantity.

True milk secretion (lactation) begins a few days later due to a reduction in circulating progesterone and the presence of the hormone prolactin. The suckling of the baby causes the release of the hormone oxytocin which stimulates contraction of the myoepithelial cells.

Answer 4

when you give birth to a baby after a few days you will produce clear substance from the breast which in a short time will develop into breast milk

Answer 5

about 2-3 days after a mother gives birth. as long as the mother breastfeeds, the breasts will continue to make milk. if a mother doesn't, the milk will eventually "dry up" and no longer flow.

Answer 6

They're called breasts and it happens late in the pregnancy. They DEVELOP milk late in the pregnancy and they PRODUCE milk after the baby's born.

Answer 7

2-3 Days after the birth of a baby.

Answer 8

Once a woman becomes pregnant her body produces hormones that tell the mammary glands to produce milk.

Answer 9

i just heard about this in CSI...

it only produces milk whenever the woman is pregnant and keeps on producing milk if the baby keeps on feeding on it...

Answer 10

"You'll begin full-scale milk production within 24 to 48 hours of giving birth to your baby."