While flipping through channels on the TV recently, I happened upon a show
dealing with exactly that! There are a lot of "old wives tales" around regarding
nursing, but I'd never heard of stuffing nursing bras with cabbage! The
reason women in the program were using cabbage to line their bras, however,
appeared to be the cooling effects of the cabbage on the sore nipples.
There
was no mention of the use of cabbage to stop ejection of
milk.
Janice
Janice Meeking
Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences,
Mount Royal College
Phone (403)440-6685
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Date:
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Subject: [HAPS-L] Cabbage and lactation
Here's an interesting one,
We were
discussing oxytocin in class today, and I was talking
about how this
hormone stimulates the ejection of milk from the mammary
glands. One
of my students asked why some women put cabbage on their
mammary glands to
stop the leaking of breast milk. Several other
students said that
their mother's did the same thing. I have never
heard of this.
Does anyone out there have any information on
this?
Steve
Steven Kish
Assistant Professor
Zane State
College
1555 Newark Road
Zanesville, OH
43701
740.588.1239
1.800.686.8324, ext.
1239
skish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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