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🧪 Here are some #LactFacts to titillate your feed

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July 5, 2023 at 6:34 AM
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July 5, 2023 at 6:35 AM
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Follow me for more boob-related facts you didn’t realize you wanted

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A graphic with a cartoon opossum with 3 babies on her back. Text: OPOSSUMS HAVE 13 NIPPLES ARRANGED IN A CIRCLE. (Seriously, google it.) #LactFacts
November 11, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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July 5, 2023 at 6:35 AM
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July 5, 2023 at 6:39 AM
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July 5, 2023 at 6:39 AM
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#LactFacts #Evolution #Breastfeeding #LactationScience #Anatomy #MedSky 🧪
A graphic with a woman with her arm raised like in one of those cheesy old deodorant commercials. Text: BREASTS EVOLVED FROM APOCRINE GLANDS. THEY'RE BASICALLY GLORIFIED SWEAT GLANDS. Raise your hand if you're sure this is an awesome science fact. #LactFacts
November 11, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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#LactSci #LactFacts #BlueSci #Mammals #platypus #evolution
A turquoise and purple graphic featuring a boob, a platypus, and a diagram of an atom with a boob instead of a nucleus. The text reads: PLATYPUSES (PLATYPI?) DONT HAVE NIPPLES. Their milk oozes out of pores on their skin like sweat, and their babies lap it up. #LactFacts
November 27, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Lmao 😂

Tagging #LactFacts and 🧪 for the lulz
December 15, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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#LactSci #LactFacts #BlueSci #Mammals
A turquoise and purple graphic featuring a boob, a dolphin, and an atom whose nucleus is a boob. Text reads: DOLPHINS DON'T HAVE NIPPLES. They just kinda squirt the milk into their baby's mouth like a Super Soaker. #LactFacts
November 27, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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Every species has its own lactation strategy that helps it adapt to its environment. There’s variation in milk components, anatomy of the breast and face, nursing behavior, and weaning age.

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July 5, 2023 at 6:37 AM
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GUESS WHAT! An animals milk contains clues about its parental behavior.

The relatively low fat & protein, high sugar content of buffalo milk means the energy won’t last the baby very long if left alone, suggesting they are “follow” mammals, who keep their babies close at all times.

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A table showing the milk composition of a buffalo compared to a cow. Sindhu & Arora, Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences (2nd Ed.), 2011 A table showing the milk composition of several species comparatively. Oftedal et al., Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2011 Oftedal & Iverson, in Handbook of Milk Composition. by Jensen and Thompson.
November 27, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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This, my friends, is how you open a scientific paper. 🍿

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A screen shot from a document from 1992: Milking a bovine cow is a delicate operation and not as easy as some might think. It takes a special touch for the cow to cooperate with the procedure. The hands must be warm and gentle or the cow can become agitated which will prevent the let-down of milk. Since we could not find any experts in the field of milking dolphins, we were on our own.
August 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22007819/
A green and purple graphic with a boob and an atom on it: THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE U.S. WOULD SAVE IN HEALTHCARE COSTS BY VIRTUE OF THE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS BREASTFEEDING HELPS TO PREVENT IS IN THE TENS OF BILLIONS. #LactFacts
November 11, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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2 new (ok migrated from Twitter) #LactFacts for your viewing pleasure.

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November 27, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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My brand is strong #LactFacts
January 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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#LactFacts !

And buffalo, who knew?
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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When you join BlueSci🧪 and a lactation scientist rolls in with a royal f-ton of #LactFacts 🕶️

Miraculous Lactation of St Bernard
Alonso Cano, c1650
Prado, Madrid
A baroque painting of a priest dressed in white robes kneeling on a platform before a statue of the Virgin Mary affixed to a wall in a church. There is a subtle glow of light around his head, and his arms are outstretched in supplication. The statue of Mary has come alive and she is expressing milk from her breast into the priest’s mouth from an impressive distance of about 5 feet. Another priest, dressed in simple Titian robes, is kneeling off to the side with his hands still together in prayer, watching the scene from the corner of the painting. In the background, there is a round window with decorative wrought iron designed like the spokes of a wheel. Outside the window you can barely glimpse the top of a hedgerow of conifers and another building.
November 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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I also use social media to spread awareness of our field. Most people don’t know that lactation science or lactation medicine is something you can study, which means we are a small field that struggles with diversity. So I curate #LactFacts, Bluesky lists, and feeds during conferences.
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Yep that's my jam

Check out this hashtag for a good time: #lactfacts
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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In our lab we are working on materials for teaching breastfeeding in K-12.

🤱🏿 is:

🐘 Mammalogy
👧🏼 Growth
🧬 Evolution
🍎 Nutrition
✋🏽 Social studies

...To that end, I have made a list of mind-blowing #LactFacts for grade 1-3(+i) teachers!

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#AnatEd #EduSky #TeacherSky 🧪🩺
Human milk and lactation science facts! (For teachers)
Science Facts About Human Milk and Lactation Grades 1-3 (+ little extra) By: Bridget McGann from THRiVE Discovery Lab at University of Manitoba Table of Contents Notes Glossary Evolution & behavior ...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Kathy Dettwyler is most famous for talking about this. It’s a bit dated now, but it’s a good overview of how anthropologists think of the question of a “natural” weaning age for humans.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) A Natural Age of Weaning
PDF | My research has looked at the various "life-history" variables (such as length of gestation, birth weight, growth rate, age at sexual maturity,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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November 19, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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❓ Did you know:

📊 A robust body of literature indicates that supporting #breastfeeding requires the participation of the entire community.

#LactFacts #WBW2025 #NationalBreastfeedingMonth

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August is National Dog Month + National Breastfeeding Month 🐾🍼 #gooddog #newmom #rentotherescue
YouTube video by Renegade & Delaine - Good Dog, Mediocre Human
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August 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Interlude: If you are suspecting this is all a ploy to leverage your weird curiosity in order to trick you into learning #LactFacts and to illustrate how poorly mammary anatomy is taught in anatomy classes, you would be correct.

Moving on…
a baby in a bib is being fed with a spoon by a person with the website 4gifs.com visible
Alt: Somebody holds a Kitcat in front of a baby and the baby opens her mouth, and the adult quickly shoves a spoonful of baby food in the baby‘s mouth
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March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM