12hr session? Damn that's some dedication! I'm glad to see you back at it....seems like a while has passed since you were posting your updates on here. I can't wait to hear about the induced lactation and how that unfolds. When you induce, are you looking for maximum milk production, or just to increase the size of your nipples? I really enjoy the descriptive detail you put into your posts, please leave nothing out, it's all VERY interesting to hear what you're doing!
12 hours? well, if I'm at home, i may as well be pumping
It's not like it requires constant attention to do.
although that requires a gentle-ish amount of force. Not extremely gentle, but if there's any minor pain after 10min of having the suction cups in place, then it's probably too much suction to keep it on for extremely long sessions like 12 hours. This is just based on experience with doing it, and avoiding a level of suction which could eventually cause blisters on the skin, which ultimately causes 'downtime' away from pumping. I've become very convinced it's the hours, not the amount of force, that gets the job done
I was away a while, from the BEA, and also from the body modding plans.
As for the inducing lactation, lactating causes nipples and breasts to grow considerably, arguably nipples even more than breasts. plus the color shift and increased sensitivity of nipples. I tend to think that going for maximum milk production is one and the same goal with going for maximum growth. I mean, I imagine that if i lactate a little, the changes would be subtle. Whereas if I put in really concerted effort into lactating as much as a human being can lactate, then I'd expect more dramatic changes. So, I'm definitely going for the "maximum"
It probably helps that I'm "into" lactation as something erotic and exciting itself. Not just for it's side effects. Although, after all growth has hit a plateau, I may slack the intensive milking schedule somewhat. I'm leaving it open ended on that, I'll wait & see how much fun it is to decide
I can say that I don't really plan to stop lactating. I think it'll be too much pleasurable fun to give it up. It's just that I might eventually drop my planned overnight & lunch break milking sessions, depending on just how much fun it is to lactate like crazy, and how much that affects production
I expect that out of the 6 per day milking sessions those will prove to be the most annoying to keep up with, schedule-wise.
I'm trying not to leave anything out, and be as descriptive and specific as possible, so that it's useful for others who are interested
I've read some studies recently, which suggest milking even more often than 6 times per day may be recommended for achieving maximum production, and that frequency has the greater impact between frequency and thoroughness of milking. The study I read basically suggested that the presence of milk in the breasts is it's own signal to the body to slow production, so keeping them very empty very often is key to increasing production.
My initial "every 4 hours" plan was based on the fact that nipple stimulation releases oxytocin, which has an effect on production. And oxytocin lasts in the blood stream about 5 hours. So milking every 4 would keep my oxytocin level spiked full time. But if still more frequent milking is of potential benefit, i might have to try to make that work, at least for a while, to help maximize production, as well as maximize growth & sensitivity changes