How long can a woman continue to lactate with only one child?

Answer 1

As long as she is regularly supplying milk, she will continue to lactate. This is the same for all mammals and is the basis that the whole dairy industry is based upon. Otherwise how would we get our daily pinta?
In the old days women were employed as wet nurses to supply milk to the children of women who could not or would not feed their own babies. To become a wet nurse , they simply continued to express their milk after their own baby was weaned.

Answer 2

As long as the woman is expressing milk on a regular basis, she can lactate for years and years. While it is recommended that a woman nurse for 2 years, some women nurse for those 2 years and continue to express breast milk for the child to drink out of a cup for years after.

Answer 3

My kid is over 3 and I still lactate. There are women that lactate for a very long time. They are known as milk maids, or wet nurse. Back in the days before std's and other diseases were so rampat, if a new mom wasn't producing milk or enough milk she would give the child to a milk maid/wet nurse to nurse and take care of until the child was old enough for foods. My great grandmother was one.

Answer 4

As long as there's a reason for her to lactate. She'll continue to make milk as long as that milk is being used. Once she stops nursing or pumping the milk will begin to dry up.

Answer 5

as long as she breast feeds this one child though in very rare cases it has been known for a woman to lactate for yrs after she finished breastfeeding in the old days these women were taken up as wet nurses along with women who had had their babies removed from their care or babues had died

Answer 6

As long as the child continues to nurse or the mom continues to pump. Breastfeeding is a supply and demand process.

My youngest will turn 4 next month and is still nursing. She'll be allowed to self-wean like her siblings.

Answer 7

Your body will continue to produce milk as long at it is stimulated. It is a matter of supply and demand. As long as someone or something is expressing the milk it will continue to be produced.

Answer 8

I saw a programme with mothers feeding chlren for years. Personally I thought it was a step to far. I'm all for breast feeding but these kids were over six. I would love to have continued even one feed a day untill my son was one but I gave up after a month.

Answer 9

As long as the milk is expressed, it will keep coming. It's a supply and demand thing. If you don't express your milk (nurse, pump) you're body will stop producing it, and you will "dry up"

Answer 10

well if breastfeeding until she weans the child from the breast. then it dries up with in a few days or so. if directly postpartum it dries up normally within 2-5 days i believe.