Really?? funny I could have sworn i began lactating a few weeks before my son was born. Unless you are being pendantic because technically the first milk is colostrum.

Win ^

ok now, we don't need to start an internet war over breast milk

69 even if that is the case what makes you think it is normal for an animal to lactate all its life. It will lactate as long athe milk is being taken. In this case it is being sucked by a machine causing the cows to make more. I have no doubt that they probably have enough to go round but my point was that we are very happy to drink a cows milk but not a humans milk. No one is suggesting you take it from the source.

Actually, a woman's milkchambers start preparing for milk-production within the first two months of pregnancy and producing liquid before the first trimester is over. This is why the growth of breasts are the first things to show instead of the baby-bump. Over the course of the second trimester, the milk-chambers produce more and more liquid resulting in the occasional leak/******* awkward situation and in the last trimester, it's actually very normal to leak lactation. The production of milk increases after the baby is born and it's cry prompts the mother's body to produce nutrition for the child.

Winnn ^^ the person that said you don't get milk until after pregnancy is clearly not a mother.

Clearly not, although it's not that hard to do a Google check to get your facts straight ;) I spoke from experience, though... lol!

And what exactly is the child suppose to drink for "a few days" until the milk comes in?

You don't even have to get pregnant to breastfeed. One of my friends had a hormone imbalance and began lactating in middle school before she had ever even had sex and there have been numerous cases of men stimulating their breasts/nipples to the point that they were capable of breastfeeding (although there is little research to confirm that the nutritional basis of male lactation is comparable to that of female lactation).

^^^ That.