Weaning Questions

Re: Weaning Questions

• augustusgoose member

  December 2014

  My decrease was slow, I didn't have a choice, my supply dried up. It got to the point when it wasn't worth it to keep going. In the end before I quit everything, I was down to two pumps a day and no BFing.
  
  It was not uncomfortable for me, again my supply was down to 3 oz a day.
  
  I have not pumped or BF for over a month, oddly enough I can still pinch milk out, not to sure what that is about.
  
  I think my hormones did play a small part, for me I think that I wasn't ready to quit, I was kinda deperessed. I feel that perhaps even though I was sad, hormones made me deperessed about it.
  
  I wonder if the best bet would be to just decease pumping time and get to the point where you quit when you get your period (if you do). My supply tanked when I got mine so I wonder if a natural decrease of supply would make ingorgrment more tolerable. GL

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• tbmadeamistake member

  December 2014

  With charlie, I only had a manual pump and that tanked my supply pretty quickly. I added a shit ton of altoids into my diet and got cabbage leaves (wash cold leaf, break veins, put vein side on your boob, wear until warm/wilted, repeat). I didn't notice any hormone craziness this time but I was already in the depths of PPD so who knows.
  
  With C I had been EPing with a double electric hospital grade, so I had to wean more slowly. Started by cutting each pump down in time, then gradually cut out a pump at a time (so if I used to pump at 9, 12, and 3, I started pumping at 10 and 2 and dropped the middle one). That time I did notice a severe hormonal reaction and was depressed for about two weeks. No leaking, but for a while after both I could pinch a bit out in the shower. That's totally normal, some woman take years to fully dry up. With both of mine it was a month or two.

  Married DH 7/30/11
  

  CSC arrived 5/7/12 
  

  CHC arrived 6/2/14
  

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• katekat8721 member

  December 2014

  Thanks girls! 

  
  

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• lest12 member

  December 2014

  Zero advice, but good luck @katekat8721!  Congrats on making it past 6 months!

   

         

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• irenewslee member

  December 2014

  I spent about 3 weeks to wean. Basically cutting out 1-2 sessions per week. My boobs were full when I stopped pumping so I decided to pump once. After that I just hand expressed a little when they got lumpy and painful. But I only had to do it a couple of times. I never had an oversupply issue. If anyway, it was under supply. So it wasnt too bad for me.

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