This occurrence took place fourteen times.

She nursed all 14 of her children up to the time that she found herself pregnant again, and during the pregnancies after the first the flow of milk never entirely ceased; always after the birth of an infant she was able to nurse it.

The milk was of good quality and always abundant, and during the period between her first pregnancy to seven years after the birth of her last child the menses had never reappeared.

She weaned her last child five years before the time of report, and since then the milk had still persisted in spite of all treatment.

It was sometimes so abundant as to necessitate drawing it from the breast to relieve painful tension.
Kennedy describes a woman of eighty-one who persistently menstruated through lactation, and for forty-seven years had uninterruptedly nursed many children, some of which were not her own.