I think that we can use common sense with some of these, others not so easy!

1.  Is a woman who is adoptive nursing and has not been pregnant (or not
pregnant with each nursing situation) as protected from reproductive cancers
as a woman who has been pregnant and lactated each time?

Pregnancy itself confers some protection for breast cancer for instance but
lactation adds to the reduction in risk. There is no reason I can think of
to expect that this would be any different in cases of lactation.


2.  It is dangerous to "mess with the system" by inducing lactation without
having been pregnant?

Absolutely not! Relactation/induced lactation is as natural as lactation
after pregnancy. Sometimes drugs are used to assist with relactation/induced
lactation and there may be risks associated with their use but that is a
different question.

 3.  Does an adoptive nursing mother show the same calcium gains after
weaning as a bio-nursing mother?

No idea. Never been researched. I wonder what is known of the mechanism for
the bone density bounce back after lactation...does anyone know??

4.  Does pregnancy "store up" essential fatty-acids?  (The mother asks this
question because she has nursed bio-children AND adoptive children, and only
in the adoptive nursing situations does she experience an itchy-skin rash
that is only cleared up by supplementing with EFA's).

No idea

Karleen Gribble
Australia

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