I have been weaning my baby from breast to bottle for a few weeks now and was wondering how long it takes for your milk supply to stop,she is having 1 breast feed a day and I need to stop fully in order to take medication
2006-11-10 06:19:31 · 15 answers · asked by lisa k 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
If you really wish, I know that you can take suppliments which will stop milk flow.
Cannot remember what they are though. I would ask your health visitor/midwife.
2006-11-10 06:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by spiegy2000 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you HAVE to take the medicine? I weaned my son for that reason, and found it very difficult. It took 2 weeks for him to get the message and stop constantly trying to feed. It is very depressing to have to stop breastfeeding before you are ready to.
It takes a long time for your milk to dry up, so if the medication is only for a week or two, you can probably restart feeding if you want to, and just express and throw away if you get too engorged. If your breasts are stimulated, you will produce milk, even years after stopping breast feeding.
2006-11-10 18:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bernice W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would be fine to stop now. Especially if you need to take meds for yourself. Never forget the saying."You must take care of yourself in order to be able to take care of anyone else.." You have done it the right way for you and your baby by weaning, this way you will not have as much engorgement, if any, and your baby has gradually learned to get nourishment from other places but he/she still gets lots of love from mommy... I stopped over a month ago but I can still express milk, everyone is different as to how long before you totally stop producing milk.... If you do get engorged and uncomfortable just take a warm shower or express just enough so you feel comfortable again.... not too much because you will stimulate your breasts to produce instead of decrease.... .... Great going mom!!!
2006-11-10 14:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by Karlee bug 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What medication do you need to take? Many meds are fine and many docs give out the wrong info on this. They look in the PDR which basically says nothing is safe instead of in "Medications & Mothers' Milk" by Hale, which is THE resource for this info. If you don't want to post the meds here, I will look it up if you private message me. The info you have may very well be wrong unelss it came from a Lactation Consultant or a LLL Leader with Hale's book. There may also be alternative meds you can speak to your doc about.
Your milk isn't going to dry up as long as you are nursing. When you are no longer nursing, then your supply will begin to dry up.
I strongly encourage you to seek more info on the meds you need to take. I have seen moms told to wean before for meds that are on the AAP's list of meds approved for nursing mothers.
2006-11-10 15:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My daughter had got down to one feed per day but when I got pregnant again, she automatically weaned herself. The taste must have changed and she just stopped. Luckily she was old enough for her not to have to be weaned onto bottles. My milk just dried up and because I was only giving one feed per day it didn't cause me any problems at all.
2006-11-10 15:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by bizzielizzie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then just stop, you won't stop producing milk until you stop feeding. I presume your daughter isn't having any reactions to the formula, so there's not really any reason to keep going, except it's nice to still do that one feed I know = )
But it's for medication, you obviously need it so just stop, you can still snuggle when she has her bottle.
Be prepared for sore boobs for a few days. The thing no-one told me about when I finished feeding my first son, my boobs were sore but then when the milk went, my boobs were like deflated balloons, I sat there crying for hours about these horrendous floppy things! Luckily they were back to normal after a day or so, thank God!! So be prepared lol spaniel ears!
Good luck x
2006-11-10 14:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by Fairy Nuff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are only breastfeeding one time per day, then your body isn't really producing that much milk anyway. Just go ahead and stop. Just be sure to wear the nursing pads if you have any leakage. You don't want to express milk, because as long as you express it your body will keep producing it.
2006-11-10 14:51:34 · answer #7 · answered by kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how old is she???? u can provide extra details to say her age.. ur milk supply takes a while to stop completely.. i nursed my son until a yr, and hes 19 months old now, and since ur only nursing once a day - it'll take about a month for ur milk supply to stop.. but u wont get full or anything, u might leak for about a week so use nursing pads, so yea, thats it.
2006-11-10 14:32:46 · answer #8 · answered by joy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about five or six months, you can start weaning baby off breast and wean her onto bottles x
2006-11-13 11:52:00 · answer #9 · answered by Kerry A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as soon as you stop feeding her your milk will start to dry up. i fed mine till she was two not throu choice she just wudnt take a bottle.
2006-11-10 14:29:51 · answer #10 · answered by monkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋