Making milk for medicine. - 10/05/16 02:42 PM
I am a healthy late 50's woman, mother to 4, breastfed for 2+ years each, Grandmother now. I am working with re-lactating as a medicine for my husband who has a rare form of cancer. I wish I had thought about this during our first go round with cancer last year, but as it has returned and options the hospital can offer are limited, I looked for what else we could do.
My idea of making milk that could help with immune system and side effects does not turn out to be so crazy as I soon found there was quite a bit of research on this!
I believe milk banks need the milk for babies, so I decided to work on making it myself, supplemented with the extras a nursing Mom who is pumping for her own infant and supplying a milk bank. We get the milk she made after a glass of wine or when there was a cold or flu in the house, what the milk bank would reject anyway.
I started on domperidone and estrogen as per the fast track protocol, but do not have a doctor to work with.
I considered going to my doc but I realize it can come across as a radical and desperate act, and am not interested in having to defend my sanity in making this decision.
I kind of suspect we have in our collective woman's history quite a few stories of women making medicine from their milk,so much missing history, especially women's stories.
I expect we will find that our bodies can make the best medicines, and why not make milk for my beloved, even if he is a 60 something grown-assed man.
I would prefer to work with a doctor, but also do not want to deal with any hassle as I am going to do it anyway.
Chemo begins soon so I am doing what I can to fast track and could use any advice or ideas. I am hand stimulating, waiting a week to get the pump to give my body time to get ready.
I feel tingling and a fuller sense already after a couple of days, but also an increase in night sweats. I always had massive night sweats when my milk came in for my babies, so feel that may be a good sign.
I imagine there must be other women out there making milk for cancer patients. If so, lets talk and figure this out
My idea of making milk that could help with immune system and side effects does not turn out to be so crazy as I soon found there was quite a bit of research on this!
I believe milk banks need the milk for babies, so I decided to work on making it myself, supplemented with the extras a nursing Mom who is pumping for her own infant and supplying a milk bank. We get the milk she made after a glass of wine or when there was a cold or flu in the house, what the milk bank would reject anyway.
I started on domperidone and estrogen as per the fast track protocol, but do not have a doctor to work with.
I considered going to my doc but I realize it can come across as a radical and desperate act, and am not interested in having to defend my sanity in making this decision.
I kind of suspect we have in our collective woman's history quite a few stories of women making medicine from their milk,so much missing history, especially women's stories.
I expect we will find that our bodies can make the best medicines, and why not make milk for my beloved, even if he is a 60 something grown-assed man.
I would prefer to work with a doctor, but also do not want to deal with any hassle as I am going to do it anyway.
Chemo begins soon so I am doing what I can to fast track and could use any advice or ideas. I am hand stimulating, waiting a week to get the pump to give my body time to get ready.
I feel tingling and a fuller sense already after a couple of days, but also an increase in night sweats. I always had massive night sweats when my milk came in for my babies, so feel that may be a good sign.
I imagine there must be other women out there making milk for cancer patients. If so, lets talk and figure this out