Transgender Woman Breast-Feeds Baby After Hospital Induces Lactation - Ceylan Yeginsu

When a transgender woman told doctors at the Mount Sinai Hospital that she wanted to breast feed her pregnant partner's baby, they put her on a regimen of drugs that included an anti-nausea medication licensed in Britain and Canada but banned in the United States. Within a month, according to the journal of Transgender Health, the woman was producing droplets of milk. With three months - two weeks before the baby's due date - she had increased her production to eight ounces of milk a day. In the end, the study showed, "she was able to achieve sufficient breast milk volume to be the sole source of nourishment for her child for six weeks," according to the journal. Tamar Reisman, MD, assistant professor of medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Zil Goldstein, MSN, program director of The Center of Transgender Medicine and Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System, said that the case illustrates that, in some circumstances, modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women who did not give birth or undergo surgery. "We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman," said the study's authors, Dr. Reisman and Ms. Goldstein.

• Tamar Reisman, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Zil Goldstein, MSN, Assistant Professor, Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Program Director, The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, The Mount Sinai Health System
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