how long did it take for your breast milk to dry up

[Ebony_Mommy]

the title asks it all..

so how long am i looking to wear breast pads for after i stop breastfeeding?

 

[budge]

my friend didn't breast feed and she never had to use breast pads at all.

i think it differs from one person to another ebs.

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

OK... but the question still remains tho..

how long did it take for the milk to go completely?

 

[budge]

well my friend said hersnever really came in.

If baby doesn't latch on and messages aren't sent to the brain telling it to supply milk i suppse it doesn't

 

[Dee1985]

mines still there if i squeeze

but i didnt need breast pads 3 days after my milk came in.

3 days after giving birth my milk came, they poored loads for 3 days after

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

i dunno if its my grammar...lol...ok.. lemme rephrase the question again..lol

how soon after stopping breastfeeding completley did ur milk dry up..

u stopped 3 months ago and it still here? etc

 

[budge]

oh ebs im sorry i didn't read your question correctly.

i can't remember sorry.

i stopped breastfeeding gradually. So i stopped lactating gradually so i didn't get engorged.

 

[Rachel]

I breastfed Nathan for a week and only needed breastpads for the next week after giving up. But my milk didnt go compleatly until about a month ago.

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

oh ebs im sorry i didn't read your question correctly.

i can't remember sorry.

i stopped breastfeeding gradually. So i stopped lactating gradually so i didn't get engorged.

aaww ok...

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

I breastfed Nathan for a week and only needed breastpads for the next week after giving up. But my milk didnt go compleatly until about a month ago.

it took that long? i thought it wud take about 2 weeks max

 

[budge]

how long do you intend breastfeeding for ebs?

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

eerrmmm.. atleast 3 months no longer than 6 months tho..lol

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

i rememeber growing up seeing women whippin out their breast to 'of age' kids.. say 2 or 3 yrs old..

do ppl still do that?

 

[budge]

i was breast fed till i was 2 . i can remember my mother feeding me.
my friends friend fed her son till he was 4.

 

[lauramumof2]

With my first I bf for 9 days and took a few weeks before I could stop wearing breastpads. My breasts were very full though.

With Joe, I didnt do it for more than a few days before I started mucking around with bottles and never felt it came in propely so I was out of bp 4 days after stopping completely.

 

[Ebony_Mommy]

my friends friend fed her son till he was 4.

facking hell!!

 

[Louise0410]

hey i had keryn 4 n a half months ago n am still leaking really heavily lol

i was wondering how long peoples milk was producing 4 i never breastfed so dnt understand y im still leaking

luv lou n keryn xxx

 

[Lucy]

Hi Ebony

I think if you stop breastfeeding gradually your body will realise there is less demand and so stop producing as much milk and you will not notice when you do/don't have milk.

Please ignore me if this is an unsuitable question, but why do you feel you would stop breastfeeding at 3/6 months? The only reason I ask is purely because from my personal experience this is when the breastfeeding got so much easier and to think of going over to bottles full time now would be a right palava! (please don't take offence, I am being nosey!)

Lucy

 

[Princess_Puddles]

My milk didnt come in, i got all they symptons for about two days and then they went but no milk, i did have to wear breast pads for about 3 weeks though as i was leaking lil bits of colostrum before hand and after i had Harrison, i do still have 'something' there if i squeeze but no milk everyone is different though i suppose!

Also i am bottle feeding so i dont know if that has anything to do with it

 

[nicky22]

i have been breastfeeding for seven and a half months.
i tried at six months to stop and was in great pain. used all the cabbage in the world, diffrernt size and type. it did't work. so i left it till i had a push from my friend to do it again!
i left it for three days, nothing. used the cabbage again, and nothing.
in the end i was in so much pain i ended up going to the doctors.
i took half a tablet every 12 hours. and it worked. i still have a littlle milk but in time that will go.
i don't have breast pain and my boobs feel normal, and back in my normal bras.