As reported by DailyMail, "A transgender woman has become the first
in the world to exclusively breastfeed her baby despite not giving birth
nor undergoing gender-reassignment surgeries.
The
30-year-old woman, who has not been identified, told doctors at Mt
Sinai's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery that her partner was
pregnant but did not wish to breastfeed, and she hoped to try instead.
For
three-and-a-half months before the birth, the woman was put on a dose
of hormone replacement therapy which the patient obtained from Canada, as well as breast pumping, until she could produce eight ounces of milk a day.
By
the time the child was born, the patient was producing enough milk to
exclusively nurse for six weeks, then continued breastfeeding alongside
other food sources for six months.
Uniquely,
she hadn't had any gender reassignment surgeries like a breast
augmentation or a vaginoplasty to construct a vagina or vulva, which can
change a person's hormone levels and in theory affect the ability to
breastfeed.
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