They would be "milked" with a squeegee.

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It's thought that this was the ancestral state, and that specialized ducts (eventually nipples) evolved later on eutherian mammals.

Edit: I recognized my error moments later when I realized that marsupials have nipples too. So this evolved after marsupials and eutherians split from monotremes.

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