London, 27 Feb – You remember that one Family Guy scene where Peter Griffin decides to "virtually" breastfeed ithe small one, horrified Stewie by attaching it to his nipple? Ecco, reality is about to dub the cartoon. It is being studied in England a kit that will allow men to breastfeed. The find would consist of a nine-month supply of progestin, the non-estrogenic version of the birth control pill. This hormone stimulatesthe production of milk glands” in men who take it. The dosage is also included in the package, for the six weeks before the birth of the baby, of another hormone called domperidone, that stimulates prolactin, in turn the hormone that causes milk production.

There is a “gender disparity” in breastfeeding

Marie Claire Springham, the creator of the kit, he explained to the broadcast Good Morning Britain the benefits of his “invention”, which according to her would fill the "gender gap" present in the context of breastfeeding. According to the Springhams (but he is in good company), the great physical and psychological stress to which the mother is subjected during the first months of the child's life, make it necessary a more equal division of roles. So fathers, arm yourself with pills and grow boobs. Springham has not yet started testing the drug cocktail but has already been awarded one of the Meaning Centred Design Awards for having “courageously challenged the meaning of male and female, mother and father, parent or child". The same old story, In short: if they go two minutes without questioning or trying to dismantle the natural order of things, he is short of breath.

Cristina Gauri
source – https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/esteri/kit-ormoni-permettera-uomini-allattare-inghilterra-106283/