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Breast milk drying up and not

Lisa - posted on 02/10/2009 ( 1 mom has responded )

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I have had 2 children, when I had my son in 2006 he was 10 weeks early and I tried so hard to give him breast milk but after a month my milk dried up and the nurses made me feel so bad. My daughter Freya was born at also 7 months but was still born, my milk just kept coming I took so many meds to stop it but nothing worked. It was 4 months later when it finally stopped and that was very painful for me also as I didnt have my daughter to give it to. has this happened to any1 else? and Does any1 know why this happens?

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Rhonda - posted on 02/10/2009

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They say that your milk comes in faster after the first pregnancy and that with the first pregnancy it usually takes about a week after givign birth for it come in. I'm sorry you were engorged. The best thing to do as a breastfeeding mother is to have a breastpump on hand for those times when you are swelling up with milk and your baby is sleep or something.

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