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Sri Lankan dad breast-feeds babies
HindustanTimesAFP ^
Posted on 10/31/2002 4:38:55 PM PST by swarthyguy
A 38-year-old Sri Lankan man, whose wife died three months ago, appears to have the ability to breast feed his two infant children, doctors told a local newspaper Wednesday.
B. Wijeratne from the central town of Walapone, 186 kilometres from the capital Colombo lost his wife when she died giving birth to their second child.
"My eldest daughter refused to be fed on powdered milk liquid in the feeding bottle," he said according to the Sinhalese-language daily Lankadeepa.
"I was so moved one evening and to stop her crying I offered my breast. I then realised that I was capable of breast feeding her," Wijeratne said.
Dr Kamal Jayasinghe, deputy director of a government hospital in the northwestern town of Kurunegala, was quoted in the Lankadeepa as saying that it was possible for men to produce breast milk if the prolactine hormone became hyperactive.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breastfeeding; breasts; ceylon; lanka; srilanka
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To: swarthyguy
To: Shermy; weikel; dighton; mhking
Ting!
To: swarthyguy
Just wrong. Wrong
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:40:27 PM PST
by
pistola
To: swarthyguy
They've misspelt prolactin. :)
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; MadIvan
Perhaps it's the Queen's English version.
To: swarthyguy; mhking; Texaggie79; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Thats what happens if you do housework you turn into a chick.
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:47:48 PM PST
by
weikel
To: swarthyguy
YUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:49:21 PM PST
by
moyden
To: wardaddy
Almost forgot.
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:49:34 PM PST
by
weikel
To: swarthyguy
How can one breastfeed if one doesn't have milk glands? Nipples aren't enough, ya know...
To: Lizavetta
You get them after doing the dishes once.
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:56:22 PM PST
by
weikel
To: Junior; PatrickHenry; VadeRetro
Please somebody bump that crevo list
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posted on
10/31/2002 4:57:43 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; swarthyguy
They've misspelt prolactin. :)
Perhaps it's the Queen's English version.
Sort of like the guy on FR who insists on the archaic spelling 'insuline'. The -in ending is used to designate a prote
in. The preferred spelling in OED is "insulin", "protein", and "prolactin".
Oldest use listed in OED:
1932 O. RIDDLE et al. in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. XXIX. 1211 We..have identified this same hormone, which we shall here call ‘Prolactin’ as the hitherto undefined pituitary principle which is essential for lactation in mammals.
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posted on
10/31/2002 5:00:45 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: swarthyguy
Well, I guess they ought to start retro-fitting men's restrooms for breast-feeding stations (alongside the diaper changing stations).
To: Lizavetta
Nipples aren't enough, ya know... Hyperactive prolactin hormones, what else?
To: weikel
>>if you do housework you turn into a chick.
Next you wanna start talking how 'we' are and feelings.
To: swarthyguy
This guy may still be curable hes gotta watch the man show 8 hours a day for the next week.
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posted on
10/31/2002 5:07:23 PM PST
by
weikel
To: swarthyguy
Now THAT is wierd.
To: weikel
Somebody should send this to asktheimam and ask for the jihadi ruling.
To: Blood of Tyrants
Just remember don't do housework or you'll end like that.
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posted on
10/31/2002 5:11:09 PM PST
by
weikel
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