Induced Lactation
There are several reasons why a parent or partner might want to start producing milk even though they never breastfed before. No, you don’t have to be the mother or pregnant or even identify as female to breast/chest feed.
Induced Lactation is the purposeful stimulation of lactation when it was previously absent.
Reasons parents induce lactation:
Adoption
Non-birth parent wants to feed
Feeding a child born out of surrogacy
Natural disaster or infant emergency
Three steps to inducing lactation:
Preparing the breast or chest
Starting to make milk
Starting to feed and growing the supply.