• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Appreciate that excess production of 2000L of breast milk would require the amount of excess caloric intake of 2 years worth of normal adult consumption. With grocery prices being what they are, that’s something.

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        Any time you’re in caloric deficit your body will start burning fat (and muscle) stores, so yeah.

        I don’t know enough about lactation, but I suspect if you stay in a deficit too long you’ll just stop lactating.

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            Windex007 is right; breastfeeding is how many new moms lose the excess pregnancy weight. But it is a delicate dance trying to keep your milk production up. Also, personally I was starving all the time while I was nursing, plus sleep deprivation, so for some of us the whole “losing the baby weight” doesn’t really work as well as we’d like.

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        Men have the glands as well, I believe just need a hormone treatment. That and maybe a tit shave to not deliver hairy milk.