When did your milk dry up??

audradean · December 2014

It's been a week and a half and I'm still engorged, lumpy, and hurting! For all of you breastfeeding mamas that have stopped, how long did it take for your milk to dry up? All my mom friends are telling me a week and a half is a long time to still be producing. I'm sick of the pain!

danabsd · December 2014

Your milk will never completely dry up. Once you've nursed a baby even a toddler can turn the tap back on, so to speak. That said, it can take months to stop filling up. Meds containing Diphenhydramine (like Benedryl) can help kill your milk. Or you can do what I did and get pregs real quick. Milk=gone.

spinsoffresonance · December 2014

Still breastfeeding DD2. With DD1 it would take 2-3 days after she dropped a feeding to not be engorged at that particular time. Dried up completely at 15m when I was 6m pregnant with DD2.

Did you drop one feeding at a time? I imagine it would take longer for your body to adapt if you went cold turkey and dropped all feedings at once.

yepyepsms · December 2014

With LO 1 I nursed to a year and it took a week to not be painfully engorged. That was in May and I had a ob appt in the end of June and during my breast exam said she could still feel lots of milk but by that point I was none the wiser.

momo214 · December 2014

I had weaned down to just a nighttime feeding then stopped. I remained full and engorged for several days and asked for advice on here. Someone recommended to pump it out, which they had done and never refilled. I tried that and really helped me. I found relief and I didn't refill.

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