Drying up

Jennyinheaven

I started a part time job at night were it is difficult to pump and I am my daughter s primary care giver most days alone so finding time to pump then is also getting difficult as she is awake more. Saturday she will be three months so I feel ok about going to all FF but I am nervous about the pain/leakage etc. Any advice, how long should it take etc?

elizabe519

I am still in the process of drying up. I stopped pumping all together and only would hand express when I felt engorged. I took sudafed to help and ibuprofen for any pain. Then I cut down to just hand expressing in the shower sometimes. Now I still have some milk in there, but I don't even need to hand express at all anymore. I'm about a month out from when I stopped pumping.

spinsoffresonance

You could drop one feeding at a time to make it easier on your boobs instead of going cold turkey. When DD1 dropped feedings it would take 2 days for my boobs to adjust and not be engorged.

DBonfante

Drop pumps/feeds gradually. This is what I did and I only had one day where I was really uncomfortable.

ho11yday

I must have taken the long way out of breastfeeding. Every week I'd drop one feeding from the schedule until I was breastfeeding only once daily. I stopped breastfeeding this week when DS2 was 8 weeks old. I've had very little leakage or pain since stopping on Wednesday.

amroke

Sudafed helped greatly when I did it. It took me a few weeks to slowly decrease time and frequency of pumping.