In a world’s first, a transgender woman was able to breastfeed baby by taking hormone therapy for three months.

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She was able to produce at least eight ounces of milk per day using a breast pump.
With frequent breast pumping, she was able to produce enough milk to breastfeed the baby for six weeks and continued doing so for another six months along with nutritious food.
Dr. Tamar Reisman, who treated the woman said, “This is a huge breakthrough in medicine for transgender people. We are happy that the patient shared her experience with us, and we are happy to help our patients build happy, healthy, transgender families."
The case study published in the journal Transgender Health, shows the hormone therapy can enable transgender women to experience pregnancy and childbirth.
"We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman," concluded the researchers.
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