How can I stop my breast milk production?
I have not tried breastfeeding him. Only bottle fed. It’s been 2 months since I had him. I have tried binding, freezing, and even cabbage leaves. I am still leaking and they are even sore. I brought it up to my doctor and they said it’s normal and there is nothing else I can do. Is it true?
Why don’t you breast feed since your milk is continuing to stay around? If you choose not to, for whatever reason, then it can be a tough go of it.
With my first one I had to stop because of multiple breast infections that got worse with each one.
My milk just didn’t want to stop. The doctor had me pump all of the milk out of each breast and then my mother tied a bed sheet around me as tight as possible. I still got very engorged (which is very, very painful). I had to sit with ice packs on each breast and keep switching them out for newo ones once they would warm up. You can not, under any circumstances, pump, remove that sheet, or get into a shower while going through this process because if milk gets out, your body doesn’t realize it’s not from the baby sucking it and it will produce more. You can ask your doctor if you can take some tylenol for the pain, but believe me, it doesn’t help very much, if at all.
I was lucky in that my mother came to help with the baby and had me go to her house for the day to relax. Sometimes just hearing the baby cry will cause the “let down” reflex and the milk comes out. I was “busting out of the seams” of the sheet I got so engorged. My breasts felt like they were choking me they were so big! Not a pretty sight, that’s for sure. It took 2 days of staying bound up and it finally started to go down (during this time I had to “sponge bathe”…in fact, I did that for a total of 5 days because I was afraid to let water get on my breasts for fear the milk would come back in!).
With my second child it was so much easier because I didn’t get the breast infections and I was able to nurse him and wean him slowly from the breast. So much easier.
That’s why I suggest going ahead and feeding him from the breast and then slowly weaning him off.
I know there is a pill that they used to give women when they had a lot of trouble with their milk drying up; however, it can cause a lot of complications and can be dangerous so the docs don’t like using it unless absolutely necessary.
Good luck!
Herbs to Stop the Flow of Your Milk
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Sage 2 oz. Used to reduce or dry up breast milk supply. Also effective in reducing secretions such as sweating, or hot flashes. This product does not contain any milk, dairy, soy, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, or gluten. Not for use during pregnancy. Ingredients: Sage, deionized water, grain alcohol. |
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Sage 4 oz. Used to reduce or dry up breast milk supply. Also effective in reducing secretions such as sweating, or hot flashes. This product does not contain any milk, dairy, soy, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, or gluten. Not for use during pregnancy. Ingredients: Sage, deionized water, grain alcohol. |