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Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and therefore the period of your time that a mother lactates to feed her young. The method naturally occurs with all post-pregnancy female mammals, although it predates mammals. In humans the method of feeding milk is additionally called breastfeeding or nursing. New-born infants often produce some milk from their own breast tissue, known colloquially as witch's milk. In most species, milk comes out of the mother's nipples; however, the monotremes, egg-laying mammals, lack nipples and release milk through ducts within the abdomen. in just one species of mammal, the Dayak megabat from Southeast Asia , is milk production a traditional male function. Stage of Lactation is additionally called as Mammogenesis. this is often milk making within the beginning, during this stage the mamma will grow both size and weight, ducts and glands of the breast will multiply rapidly and therefore the areola will darken. There are four stages in lactation i.e, Lactogenesis I, Lactogenesis II, Galactopoesis and Involution.

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