Sri Lankan dad breast-feeds babies

HindustanTimesAFP ^

[swarthyguy]

A 38-year-old Sri Lankan man, whose wife died three months ago, appears to have the ability to breast feed his two infant children, doctors told a local newspaper Wednesday.

B. Wijeratne from the central town of Walapone, 186 kilometres from the capital Colombo lost his wife when she died giving birth to their second child.

"My eldest daughter refused to be fed on powdered milk liquid in the feeding bottle," he said according to the Sinhalese-language daily Lankadeepa.

"I was so moved one evening and to stop her crying I offered my breast. I then realised that I was capable of breast feeding her," Wijeratne said.

Dr Kamal Jayasinghe, deputy director of a government hospital in the northwestern town of Kurunegala, was quoted in the Lankadeepa as saying that it was possible for men to produce breast milk if the prolactine hormone became hyperactive.

[swarthyguy]

[swarthyguy]

Ting!

[pistola]

Just wrong. Wrong

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

They've misspelt prolactin. :)

[swarthyguy]

Perhaps it's the Queen's English version.

[weikel]

Thats what happens if you do housework you turn into a chick.

[moyden]

YUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

[weikel]

Almost forgot.

[Lizavetta]

How can one breastfeed if one doesn't have milk glands? Nipples aren't enough, ya know...

[weikel]

You get them after doing the dishes once.

[cornelis]

Please somebody bump that crevo list

[aruanan]

They've misspelt prolactin. :)

Perhaps it's the Queen's English version.

Sort of like the guy on FR who insists on the archaic spelling 'insuline'. The -in ending is used to designate a protein. The preferred spelling in OED is "insulin", "protein", and "prolactin".

Oldest use listed in OED:

1932 O. RIDDLE et al. in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. XXIX. 1211 We..have identified this same hormone, which we shall here call ‘Prolactin’ as the hitherto undefined pituitary principle which is essential for lactation in mammals.

[SamAdams76]

Well, I guess they ought to start retro-fitting men's restrooms for breast-feeding stations (alongside the diaper changing stations).

[swarthyguy]

Nipples aren't enough, ya know...

Hyperactive prolactin hormones, what else?

[swarthyguy]

>>if you do housework you turn into a chick.

Next you wanna start talking how 'we' are and feelings.

[weikel]

This guy may still be curable hes gotta watch the man show 8 hours a day for the next week.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Now THAT is wierd.

[swarthyguy]

Somebody should send this to asktheimam and ask for the jihadi ruling.

[weikel]

Just remember don't do housework or you'll end like that.

[weikel]

Well damnit thats Texaggies job and he still hasn't showed up grrr.

[sneakypete]

How can one breastfeed if one doesn't have milk glands?

It's a little-known scientific fact that men who keep putting the toilet seat down grow them.

[Lizavetta]

Awww, come on you guys....you have to admire the man's commitment to his child. At least he didn't dump it at some orphanage.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Not your everyday run of the mill story........

[weikel]

Nah that has less serious symptoms to develop this you gotta start doing the dishes and watching lifetime.

[ValerieUSA]

Is that you?

[swarthyguy]

He, he

THere's gotta be a country song in here,

I was weaned on my daddy's breast,
And it sure felt like the best,
But how was i to know,
It was a big no,no.

[weikel]

He'd have to start doing dishes, and watching gone with the wind type movies to end up like that.

[swarthyguy]

Another story from the same edition.....

Gals have a ball at male pageant

Alka Rastogi
LUCKNOW, October 31

Ogling heavenly bodies is no male prerogative and women in Uttar Pradesh proved that with a vengeance at a fashion show organised after a year long hiatus.

While the Pulsar Mr North India show organised at the Hotel Taj Residency in Lucknow was an all-boys affair, fittingly in a state now ruled by a lady Chief Minister, it was the girls who had the most fun. The damsels at the venue were certainly not the ones in distress as an enthusiastic crowd gave the twenty-seven hunks parading the ramp the full treatment.

The catcalls began soon after Mr Uttranchal took the stage. Labelled 'panther of the hills' by his female tormentors, the transformation from roaring tiger to mewing pussy was surprisingly quick.

Bare chests were clearly unpopular and the girls made little secret of their preference for a more 'hair raising' experience. The He-men in the male menagerie did not fare any better and were unceremoniously discarded to the scorn-heap as objects-of-no-desire. 'Hey, you didn't set my pulse racing', was the common complaint. Most of the barbs were in fact sharp enough to make any man in the near vicinity want to curl up and die.

Dismissive or not, the Amazonians lost no chance of casting an amorous eye upon the goods on display. There was good-natured laughter all around as the ladies sighed and moaned in appreciation at show of rippling muscles and bulging pectorals.

A nubile youngster swaying to the beats of a song from the blockbuster movie Devdas added colour to the proceedings. There were many red faces when the aspiring Mrs Nene was eventually exposed as a cream-and-peaches participant in a drag act.

The evening in hunk heaven was such a delightful experience for the largely female audience that it has led to demands for an encore. And with such a loyal fan following to fall back upon, male pageants in Uttar Pradesh would surely be a blast.

Anybody listening?

[swarthyguy]

Backwoods(!) babes go wild.

[Zaxis]

Not your everyday run of the mill story........

Surely you mean run of the milk story........

[Blue Screen of Death]

A thousand years of mathematics, a renaissance.
of science, the industrial revoloution, Bill Gates and DOS, Al Gore inventing the Internet to bring us this story. Wonderful.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

OH, nicely done......... lol

[boris]

He must be the titular head of Sri Lanka.

[wardaddy]

I don't think this is biologically possible is it?

[tiamat]

Lizavetta wrote: Awww, come on you guys....you have to admire the man's commitment to his child. At least he didn't dump it at some orphanage.

THANK you! Especially since she's a little girl! Not as valued in that culture and all....

Tia

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
This has come about after much badgering by you, my friends and extended family...

[RikaStrom]

Oh dear, I can see that some are going to milk this story for all it's got.

I've heard of tit for tat, but honestly!

[hinckley buzzard]

This phenomenon is well-known among ethnologists who have studied primitive cultures. It is called "couvade" and has been documented in a variety of locations.

It is similar to sympathetic childbirth, in which a father, geographically distant from and out of communication with his wife undergoes excruciating abdominal pains followed by a subjectively described feeling of emptiness, at the very time of delivery.

This has been described to me by veterans who were overseas during WW II while their wives were pregnant and giving birth back in the States.

Feministas don't even know the half of it.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Thank you for explaining the difference in spelling.. That makes sense. The condition is also called hyperprolactinemia-- the meds for it make people really sick.

[weikel]

Dunno think if your hormones change it can happen( and it happens if you do housework, change diapers, watch sad emotional chick like movies, leave the toilet seat up etc).

[wardaddy]

Damn I better go squeeze my nips and check it out...lol

I'm for sure "kittycat vernacular" whipped....

Tied to that whipping post actually.....old Allman Brothers song

[Mo1]

Thats what happens if you do housework you turn into a chick.

FOFL ...

[weikel]

Don't make wardaddy do any housework or this is what will happen. Having him put the toilet seat down is bad too.