The human body is a wonder. Whether you’ve accomplished an athletic feat, carried a baby to term, or used your body to move through the world in any kind of different way, then you can attest to this fact. Still, we recognize that there are limits to what our bodies can do. There are rules that we’ve accepted.
But every once in a while, willpower and medical advancements bend and even break the rules we’ve been taught to accept. One mother defied the odds in an effort to breastfeed her child, despite never having been pregnant.
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Caitlin and her wife recently became moms.
Caitlin and her wife Leah are the mothers to a baby boy. While Caitlin wasn't her son's gestational carrier, she's been able to breastfeed him.
She’s documented her motherhood journey on TikTok, and explained how she worked with medical professionals to be able to breastfeed her child.
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Caitlin knew she wanted to breastfeed before her son was even born.
Caitlin’s journey began when her partner, Leah, was 17 weeks pregnant. Caitlin wasn’t pregnant and never had been. But she reached out to a lactation consultant to figure out if she had any options.
“She first put me on the pill to help grow cherry tissue and also domperidone, which helps with inducing lactation,” Caitlin explained on TikTok.
That combination helped her body start producing milk.
Domperidone is a medicine licensed for short-term relief of nausea and vomiting, according to the UK's National Health Service.
After taking the drug for a while, Caitlin then began trying to hand express. It was then she realized that she had started producing milk. Caitlin says she stopped taking the pill eight weeks before her wife gave birth.
Caitlin also used a breast pump to stimulate breast milk production.
Once she realized her milk had come in, Caitlin started pumping every three hours, even during the night. “Over time, my milk supply just kept increasing and increasing,” Caitlin said.
Now, Caitlin's son gets breast milk from both her and Leah. “Oakley is now three months old and we have completely sustained him on our breast milk which is crazy.”
The two women have even admitted to tasting each other's breast milk — just once — to see if there was a difference. There was!
