A brief note about today's daf: we have learned that women who are nursing are permitted to be in a state of niddah from the time that they find blood rather than in advance of that examination. Today's daf considers a number of considerations regarding nursing. The rabbis suggest that women are expected to begin menstruating again two years after giving birth, even if they continue to nurse until the child is four or five years old.
The rabbis have said that menstrual blood turns to milk, and that women's limbs become dislocated and their spirits are removed from their bodies for the first two years after childbirth. What do these words mean? We learn that blood is assumed to break down into all necessary parts of the body. When nursing, more blood is required, especially in and around the breasts, to support the creation of milk. After childbirth, the rabbis assume that the body is working toward supporting another person, and so the menstrual cycle is affected.
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