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This applies in particular to photostat reproduction, copying, mimeographing or duplication of any kind, trans- lating, preparation of microfilms, and electronic data proc- essing and storage. 39 4 How Breastfeeding Works: Anatomy and Physiology of Human Lactation Melinda Boss, MPS, B.Pharm, Senior Research Fellow; Peter E. Hartmann, E/Prof, PhD, BRurSc milk are considered in a functional context. The ! Expected Key Learning Outcomes removal of milk from the mammary gland is also ● Setting the Scene The history of the understanding of the reviewed, including milk ejection and the infant anatomy and physiology of lactation suck-swallow-breathe reflex. This chapter covers ● The processes of lactation changes occurring over the lactation cycle from ● The production and regulation of milk sup- conception, secretory differentiation during preg- ply nancy, secretory activation after birth, the endo- ● How the complexity of lactation benefits crine and autocrine regulation of lactation, and fi- both mother and baby nally involution and the return of the mammary gland to its resting state. 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Background In 1840, Astley Cooper published a book titled “On “ the Anatomy of the Breast”. His anatomical dissec- In 1758 Carolus Linnaeus, the father of taxono- ” tions of the lactating breast are still used in text- my , grouped into one class both aquatic and land books to this day. This is in part due to the diffi- animals with the capacity to produce milk for culty in obtaining specimens (lactating women their young: Mammalia. The selection of this term rarely donate their bodies to science) and partly was unusual because it was only directly applica- due to a lack of scientific interest in this fascinat- ble to half the animals in this class, namely fe- ing organ. Thus, Cooper’s work stands out as the males. Indeed, he ignored other biological traits exception and his book provides a sound founda- (such as hair, sweat glands, and three ear bones) tion for the understanding of mammary anatomy that are specific to all mammals. Wet nursing, the and physiology. He rightly deserves to have the practice of mothers breastfeeding another moth- ’ ligaments of the breast, Cooper’s ligaments, er s infant, was widely practiced at that time. Spe- named in his honour. This chapter addresses his- cifically, rich families paid poor mothers to breast- torical as well as current knowledge of lactation, feed their babies. Diaries of rich mothers suggest “ ” including a detailed review of Cooper’s work and that they reluctantly accepted this cuckoo-like how this developed our current understanding. behaviour because they had been convinced that it His dissections remain the seminal work on the was best for their babies. Wet nursing was preva- “ ” gross anatomy of the human breast and many of lent in the better classes in Sweden and other his preparations have been reproduced here to il- European countries. Linnaeus was strongly op- lustrate the structure of its parenchyma, together posed to wet nursing. It is said that he chose the with its innervation, blood, and lymphatic supply. term, Mammalia, because he wanted to emphasize In addition, the anatomy of the lactating breast that young mammals should be suckled by their forms the basis for a detailed consideration of the own mothers. Today, our current knowledge of the physiology of human lactation. The historical de- importance of breastfeeding to both the mother ’ velopment of the current knowledge of the mech- and her infant reinforces the wisdom of Linnaeus anisms involved in the synthesis and secretion of choice of the term, Mammalia. 4 – How Breastfeeding Works 40 ▶ Fig. 4.1 Changes in the propor- tion of infants who were breastfed in 7 high-income countries from 1938 to 80% 1980. (Reproduced from Hartmann, 10 P.E. et al. Human lactation: Back to nature. Physiological Strategies in 60% 4 5 Lactation. Symposia of the Zoologi- 6 9 cal Society of London. 337–368, 40% 8 1984) 2 1 3 20% Incidence of breastfeeding Incidence 11 12 0% 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 Time (years) (1) at 3 months of age, Australia (from Wilmot, 1973) (2) at 2 months of age, Sweden (from Hofvander & Sjolin, 1971) (3) at 3 months of age, Poland (from Vahlquist, 1975) (4) at 1 week of age, U.S.A. (from Martinez & Nalezienski, 1981) (5) at 1 week of age, Canada (from M. E. Thomson & Brault-Dubuc, 1981) (6) at 1 week of age, United Kingdom (from Sloper, Elsden & Baum, 1977) (7) at 1 week of age, Australia (from Hartmann, Kulski, Rattigan, Prosser & Saint, 1981) (8) at 3 months of age, Sweden (from WHO, 1981) (9) at 3 months of age, Hungary (from WHO, 1981) (10) at 3 months of age, Australia (from Hitchcock & Owles, 1980) (11) at 2 months of age, Denmark (from Biering-Sørensen, Hilden & Biering-Sørensen, 1980) (12) at 3 months of age, United Kingdom (from Vahlquist, 1975) The abandonment of breastfeeding in the 19th The active marketing of “safe” infant formula and 20th centuries seems to have been associated under the erroneous belief that scientifically de- with the development of condensed cow’s milk in veloped formula was either better or equivalent to 1853 and evaporated cow’s milk in 1885. Pasteur- breastmilk for the nourishment of babies, enabled isation and the home icebox also decreased the the lower socioeconomic classes to use this “pock- risk of contamination of infant formula with mi- et wet nurse” and follow the example set by the crobiological pathogens. By the 1920s and 1930s richer classes. The decline in breastfeeding was ar- evaporated cow’s milk was widely available at af- rested in 1972 in most high-income countries fordable prices and several clinical studies sug- ▶ Fig.