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I'm not breastfeeding, but I was wondering how long does it take for my milk to dry up?
If you only nurse a few times a day then you will probably not notice the difference.
And don't be worried if it takes a long time for your milk to dry up. I stopped nursing my son 9 months ago and if I squeeze I can still get some milk out. My Dr. told me that it's fine and he has seen women still have milk up to a year after they stop. But that isn't typical.
So basicaly, if you want your milk dried up, don't nurse and don't express it in any way. It shouldn't be long untill it's gone.
At the hospital, I was told that the best thing was to express some breast milk right after feeding and let it air dry on your nipples, that the milk had antibodies that would help heal the cracked/chapped skin naturally.
For me, this went away after the first 2 weeks. I hope you get some relief soon - I know how uncomfortable it is!!
1. How long does it take for your milk to dry up?
2. How long do you bleed?
My situation: i had an extremely easy birth. No tearing, my vag didnt even hurt that bad (more so my butt). I breast fed for 3 days and quit. My milk never even came in yet, just colostrum. but my boobs are 2x the size and hardd. They leak through pads about every half hour.
Its been 5 days and my blood starting to get brown and is not very heavy, a light period.
Just trying to get an estimate from experienced moms.
Hi,
Curious just went thru the horrendous detox quite rapidly from fentynal from 150 mg every 48 hrs for 4 years due to degenerative disc disease and 4 bulging disks down to 25 mg in 2 months, completely off it 6 weeks now, with little to no help from Dr except to lower dosage, he had no clue how to wean me down except offering soboxone and methadone which I declined.
The worst physical experience I've ever gone thru.
A baby can develop, with time, the ability to "empty" a breast in 7-10 minutes. But it does take time for that to happen. During the first few months, it isn't uncommon for a baby to nurse for 20-30 even 45 minutes. I don't pull my babies off, I let them decide when they have had enough and they break the latch on their own.
My mom said that there was a pill they gave women in the hospital who weren't breastfeeding to make their milk dry up. Granted, this was over a decade ago, and I have never heard of this.. So should I call and ask my Dr. about it, or is this something they stopped doing? And if that is not an option, what, if anything can I do to stop this? I would rather have a day or two of pain drying up, than every single day. I stopped pumping as much, thinking it would slow my production down..
keep it simple remember whatever you take has to be unpacked & cleaned once your back home:)
I took cheap flip flops to wear as house shoes & in the shower & I threw em in the trash as we packing to go home LOL
You may laugh, but I took bottles from home of all the bathroom things that were almost empty so once our stay was up the bottles were empty so I could also trash them & have less to unpack once we were home:)
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I put cabbage leaves in my bra and it eased the pain sooo much. Didn't dry my milk though I was able to feed for 18 months but it stopped the pain, swelling and fever that I was suffering. I too have large breasts. The other thing is to not drink too much water like they recommend. This makes it worse if you are like me and the milk comes in anyway.
also you meantioned we dont know how long shes quit or how long she did it -do you hear yourself? for all you know shes been clean for monthes. im not going to argue with you guys but i think you should be a little bit more aware of how your words COULD affect others- all im saying is that we should be kind to one another not hurtful-afterall didnt you just get done saying how we mold our children-they learn from us. we want them to learn to be polite and kind to others right.
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