The mother’s breasts prepare for lactation after pregnancy
Hormones action during breastfeeding
Hormones called prolactin and oxytocin are produced when the baby sucks the nipple and the stimulation is transmitted to the pituitary gland. Prolactin is used to send the command of converting blood into breast milk and to push out the breast milk that accumulates in the breast ducts is the task of oxytocin.
Because both baby and mother are still new to this process, breast milk might not be released at first, but both the mother and the baby will adapt to this process with repetition and practice.
Breast Milk secretion mechanism
A large number of acinar cells combine to make acinar. Breast Milk is secreted inside the acinar after being produced in
acinar cells and is released through breast ducts.
Myoepithelial cells work as a pump and contract to discharge the breast milk when the breastfeeding baby sucks the nipple.
