My wife is pregnent for the last 3 months, when will her breast fill with milk.?

Question

I mean to say, when will her breasts get milk.

Answer 1

Likely, as soon as you stop feeding.

Answer 2

It depends on the woman and the pregnancy. With my first pregnancy, my breasts were leaking at about 5 months gestation. With my other two children, it took much longer. The full milk will come in after about four or five days if this is her first child, and less if it isn't. I highly recommend attending la leche league meetings before the baby is born, and having a lactation-aid in the room during the first few attempts at breastfeeding. Breastfeeding can be very challenging, especially if it's not well-supported by friends and family, so a support group like la leche can be vital to successful breast feeding. Also, make sure that your pediatrician supports or even recommends breastfeeding and understands that it is an important thing that needs to be protected, not discouraged. Many pediatricians still frown on breastfeeding and are quick to suggest stopping at the slightest signs of challenge or sickness. Some have been known to suggest that breastfeeding causes certain problems, like spitting-up, which it certainly doesn't.

Answer 3

Once the placenta leaves the womb, the body will secrete "prolactin", a pituitary hormone that stimulates and maintains the secretion of milk. Once prolactin is secreted, milk will come out maybe from 1 to 3 days after stimulation is given by the baby sucking on the breast. I helped my wife a little bit by getting a manual milk pump and stimulating her breasts right after the baby was born. That way she was able to breat feed a little bit on the third day and fully on the fourth day. Seven weeks later, milk is now flowing inmensely from her breasts. Now we must use the manual milk pump to keep her breast from hurting. If milk accumulates to the point of making her breast very sensitive, it may aggravate into a mastitis condition (infection) which is something you must try to avoid.

Answer 4

Well, for me, my breasts started leaking colostrum when I was about 6 months pregnant, but I didn't produce regular milk until about 4 or 5 days after the baby was born.

Answer 5

2-4 days after she gives birth. The more she nurses the baby with her colostrum (pre milk) the faster it will come in.

Colostrum is the pre-milk fluid produced from the mother's mammary glands during the first 72 hours after birth. It provides life-supporting immune and growth factors that insure the health and vitality of the newborn.

Answer 6

Her milk should not start to come in good till after the baby is born.. she will start to get the colostrum, before the birth, and then the milk will come in after the baby nurses for a day or two...

Answer 7

Her breast will start filling with milk closer to the end of her pregnancy. I think about a month or two. That's why they get bigger.

Answer 8

2 to 4 days after birth. around a week prior to birth she'll start producing collostrum which the baby needs at birth. then milk will come in later at the right time the baby needs it.

check out http://www.lalecheleague.org/ for more information and for support in breastfeeding.

Answer 9

About 3 days after birth is average. She will get Colostrum before that though.

Answer 10

not until after she gives birth usually between 2-4 days