Your friend is breast-feeding although no one in her family ever has. She is very concerned because it seems like whenever her infant cries, breast milk begins to flow even when she has not picked her baby up yet
What would you tell her is happening?
a. She is having a breast-swelling reflex.
b. She is experiencing a milking reflex.
c. She is experiencing the let-down reflex.
d. She is having a lactation reflex.
C. A let-down reflex in the mother's breasts causes milk to be released to the tip of her nipples whenever she hears the sound of her infant's cry, sees its open mouth, or even thinks about breast-feeding.
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