The day was cold, but she was sweating slightly, and I could see growing dark stains on the bosom of her dress, from leaking milk.

When he thought about it, he remembered that her nipples had been leaking milk for the past two nights and that when he had lain alongside her in the doorway to the roundhouse that afternoon with his hand on her belly, he had felt the press of a small, round head against his palm.

Plus, women often have very funny tales - leaking milk in meetings, spraying family members and cabbage leaves in bras - just to name a few.

Nursing bras are designed to allow the mother to insert breast pads to adsorb leaking milk between feedings.