lactate

(verb) to produce milk from mammary glands (breasts); the production of breastmilk caused by the release of the hormone oxytocin through either (1)the excess stimulation of the nipples by pumping (2) the labor of a pregnant woman or (3) the sucking of a baby. It can be achieved by a woman who has adopted a baby and has never breastfed before and who has never been pregnant before. The woman's breasts are naturally designed with mammary glands for lactation.

She began to lactate in her fifth month of pregnancy.

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