2007-02-02 06:47:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
As long as she continues to nurse or pump. Mom can make milk as long as the milk is being removed from the breasts. It's all about supply and demand. Mothers can nurse for years if both mom and child want to do so.
2007-02-02 06:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-02 13:34:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an expert but I do have a child and after I stopped breastfeeding, I still produced milk for about 6 or 7 weeks. Now if you continue to breastfeed, I think you produce milk as long as you keep it up at a regular pace.
2007-02-02 06:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends on if you are going to nurse or not. If you nurse than you will have milk until you quite nursing. There are woman in China out of necessity who nurse till kids are between 4-6 years old. My daughter is 14 1/2 months old and she still nurses.
Hope this helps
2007-02-02 06:52:10 · answer #4 · answered by danniella0802 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a psy said that a woman can lactate as long as they are breast feeding and when she stops her milk will dry up. but i dont know. there is a shot that dries up milk that your doc can give you
2007-02-02 06:53:48 · answer #5 · answered by Ramona* 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My aunt is lactating nine years later
2007-02-02 06:52:49 · answer #6 · answered by Pauline 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is almost three years old, and I stopped breast feeding her when she was three months old, and I still lactate.
2007-02-02 06:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by *NuBCaKe* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indefinitely, as long as she keeps going and doesn't stop.
That's what wet nurses used to do -- nurse one child after another, for other women.
2007-02-02 06:51:50 · answer #8 · answered by Feinschmecker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's pretty much supply and demand...............if your baby still does it then the momma still makes it...............if the momma decides to stop then her lactating will stop..
2007-02-02 09:36:30 · answer #9 · answered by kathleen_martin8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UNTIL YOU STOP PUMPING IT OR STOP HAVING IT SUCKED OUT
AS LONG AS THEIR IS A DEMAND FOR IT YOUR BODY WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE IT
2007-02-02 06:54:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋