Hello.  I mostly lurk...coming out of hiding to pick a few brains...
 
An adoptive nursing mom is asking me some questions that I have NO CLUE
about, and about which I cannot find suitable info for at any of my regular
resources (including the archives here).  I'm hoping someone here can help
educate me:
 
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?
 
2.  It is dangerous to "mess with the system" by inducing lactation without
having been pregnant?
 
3.  Does an adoptive nursing mother show the same calcium gains after
weaning as a bio-nursing mother?
 
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).
 
I hope I have worded these questions properly.  The mother in question is
not a client per se...just someone who has some questions.
 
If you can help answer, please provide links if possible.
 
Blessings!
 
Karyn-grace Clarke
LLLCL and "IBCLC wanna-be" (anxiously waiting with baited breath for the
results on 10/19!)

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