RE: [HAPS-L] Cabbage and lactation

["Rawding, Robert S" <RAWDING001@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, 

That would be a good trick with the cabbage, though, since the mammary
glands are inside the breasts - not the breasts themselves, e.g. a
duckbill platypus has mammary glands but no breasts.   But we DO know
what you meant, Steve!!!!   So too, the milk letdown reflex stops when
the stretch on the nipple stops - I belive.   The cabbage or any other
object would be irrelevant.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:28 PM
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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

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