I just need to shout this some place that people don't think I am crazy for trying to relactate. I'll spare the long story, but the facts are:
DD1 BF for almost 4 yrs, never supplemented
DD2 BF for 2.5 yrs and self-weaned when #3 came, never supplemented
DD3 came and I was in living he!! with her health problems. At 4 months she was so sick, and I was making myself ill from TEDs that were not working...she is now 8 months, cannot eat anything but elemental formula prescribed by the Ped GI...no solids, every BM trial through 6 months made her horribly sick...we were heading toward FTT, was bad. So we have her plumped up on elemental formula and I had resigned myself, after so many months of fighting to BF, that she would be on Neocate longterm (quit pumping when it was so bad we were considering feeding tube). Fastforward...this may totally fail, but I decided to see if anything in her system had changed and to relactate and give it one more go. Even if it fails, I'll be able to put it to rest.
So...I started fenugreek, pumping (but have only been able to do 4x a day), domperidone...and every time I pump I get nothing...not a drop....although if I try realllly hard, I can hand express a tiny teeny drop. Anyway...I sat down, pump cranking, I was sitting in the half dark, working on the computer at the same time. And when I took the pump off...I HAD MILK! Not pouring out of course...but like...totally wet and milky all over, have to clean pump parts, kind of milk. I am so optimistic that my body with kick this up, esp if I can pump more. And DD3 has been latching like a pro when she is half asleep, so I know she remembers how. :)
I just had to share my oh so minor success!
