Hi Tricia,
Many perimenopausal and postmenopausal women relactate or induce lactation. She will need to cease taking synthetic oestrogen and progesterone because they will suppress milk production.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

On 27/05/2012, at 9:27 AM, Tricia Williams wrote:

> I have permission to share this information.  I have a 50 year old woman
> who is adopting and wants to breastfeed.  She is taking hormones both for
> lactation and because she is peri-menopausal. Does anyone have any stories
> of success with a similar case? Ideas I can share with her? Thank you,
> Tricia Williams, RN, IBCLC
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