Hi Lisa,
The WHO paper on relactation has a ton of good information in it.
Here's a snippet:
"A woman’s previous experience of lactation may have only a marginal effect 
on her ability
to relactate. Auerbach and Avery (35) found that women who had never been 
pregnant or
those with prior pregnancies who had never breastfed were somewhat less 
likely to
relactate fully than were women who had previously breastfed, but the 
difference was not
statistically significant. The same women were also less likely to produce 
breastmilk
using mechanical stimulation before their adoptive infants suckled. If an 
adoptive mother
had breastfed previously, the adopted infant was more likely to start suckling 
in the first
ten days."

Marcia McCoy

>From:    Lisa Doughty <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Adoptive Breastfeeding

>    Hello.  My name is Lisa Doughty and I am in my second semester of
>nursing at Ivy Tech in Indianapolis, Indiana.  We were assigned to sign
>up for your list serve.  I am totally blown away by all the things I
>didn't know about breastfeeding.  There is something that comes through
>almost everyday that is enlightening me that hopefully I will be able to
>pass on to my patients or at least be able to put them in contact with a
>lactation consultant to address.  What a wonderful resource!
>     One thing that absolutely floored me is that women can lactate for
>their adoptive children.

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