Two months ago, we reduced breastfeeding down to 4 times per day, so her milk production is much lower than it was. But, for the past few days she has had a big increase in anxiety about weaning down to 1x or 2x per day, and she suddenly was unable to have her let-down. So, our baby would try and try but hardly get any milk. This causes both of them to get stressed out and this stress seems to make it even more difficult for my wife to have her let-down.
So now, of the 4-5 times that she tries to nurse per day, she only gets a let-down 1 or 2 times. This is causing more anxiety because she has had mastitis a few times and is worried that the stagnant milk will turn into mastitis. Her first period since pregnancy was 2 wks ago.
Ideally, she would nurse 1x or 2x a day until the baby is 18 months old. But if this continues, she'll probably have to quit nursing altogether.
Our question is:
- have you ever heard of this problem for late stage breastfeeding?
- any ideas for solutions
2006-06-06
07:53:55
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