Lactation

Lactation is the physiological process of breast milk synthesis, secretion, and ejection by the female mammary glands, primarily occurring in the postpartum state to provide infant nutrition and immunological support This neuroendocrine process is initiated following childbirth by the rapid decline of circulating progesterone and placental lactogen in the presence of elevated anterior pituitary prolactin Maintenance of ongoing milk production and the let-down reflex depends on regular mechanical...

Lactation is the physiological process of breast milk synthesis, secretion, and ejection by the female mammary glands, primarily occurring in the postpartum state to provide infant nutrition and immunological support This neuroendocrine process is initiated following childbirth by the rapid decline of circulating progesterone and placental lactogen in the presence of elevated anterior pituitary prolactin Maintenance of ongoing milk production and the let-down reflex depends on regular mechanical...

Lactation is the physiological process of breast milk synthesis, secretion, and ejection by the female mammary glands, primarily occurring in the postpartum state to provide infant nutrition and immunological support

This neuroendocrine process is initiated following childbirth by the rapid decline of circulating progesterone and placental lactogen in the presence of elevated anterior pituitary prolactin

Maintenance of ongoing milk production and the let-down reflex depends on regular mechanical suckling or expression, which stimulates further prolactin release for alveolar synthesis and triggers posterior pituitary oxytocin secretion to contract myoepithelial cells