Mothering › Forums › Archives › Pregnancy Archives › May 2008 › When does the leaking stop?????
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

When does the leaking stop?????  

post #1 of 35
6/17/08 at 4:29pm
Thread Starter 
Help! I can't go out into public for longer than a half hour! This is crazy.
post #2 of 35
6/17/08 at 4:33pm
For dd1 it was a very long time ... maybe going on a year? But I wasn't leaking as bad as you. Cloth pads worked for me. Have you tried LilyPadz? Or maybe the shells that actually collect the milk? My friend used those and got enough milk to build quite a stash!
post #3 of 35
6/17/08 at 4:52pm
i tried the cloth pads and i didnt like them. this is gross, but they "stick" to me. I went back to my disposable lansinoh ones.
post #4 of 35
6/17/08 at 4:57pm
I think it is after 6 weeks that (or is it 3 months?) that the hormonal control of breastmilk production switches over completely to supply and demand.

Have you tried block feeding? With my second I had to block feed up to 12 hours on one side (just pumping enough to relieve engorgement on the other side) then switch. i think it's generally suggested to start with 3 hour blocks per side though
post #5 of 35
6/17/08 at 5:12pm
With mt first I leaked the entire time he was breastfed. With my second I stopped leaking around four months. This time I'm still leaking (dd is 5 weeks) but it seems to be slowing down a bit.
post #6 of 35
6/17/08 at 5:25pm
Thread Starter 
I tried the shells, but I collect a shell full in 15 minutes. :

Already block feeding.
post #7 of 35
6/17/08 at 6:41pm
good lord woman. we need to put some gallon jugs in your bra and send them off to the milk bank.

I am leaking a bit this time, but not near as bad as in the past. I remember around 3-4 months being able to get out without pads on. Unless something stimulates a let down, I seem to do okay. In fact my pads don't really get noticably wet until I am nursing. The side he is not on will leak like mad and need a new pad.
post #8 of 35
6/17/08 at 6:49pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarchWillow View Post
good lord woman. we need to put some gallon jugs in your bra and send them off to the milk bank.


Don't think I haven't considered it! If I'm still leaking like this in a few weeks, I'm going to go back to collecting some of it and see if I can make my 100oz to donate.
post #9 of 35
6/17/08 at 7:02pm
I'm still having major leaking (and fountain spraying if I'm topless!) at 8.5 weeks. This is totally different from dd. I hope it lets up a little bit soon; I'd like to lose the bulls-eye look from my mega breast pads!
post #10 of 35
6/17/08 at 7:05pm
With dd it stopped around 3 months.

-Angela
post #11 of 35
6/17/08 at 7:06pm
I was lucky enough to leak (only during letdown) until DS1 was 6 months old! So not fun.

This time seems a little better.
If I need an extra few minutes I'll use cloth with a folded piece of papertowel and make sure to press my offending nipple if I can during feeding. It buys me extra time.
Mind you it's difficult if I have letdown in the grocery store randomly...can't exactly walk around poking my nipples in without offending someone lol!
post #12 of 35
6/17/08 at 7:17pm
Sara, you can also post on the finding your tribe forum for your area and see if anyone is looking for milk. Some changed hands here in this area recently as a result of just such a thread .
post #13 of 35
6/17/08 at 10:45pm
Thread Starter 
Shanana, good idea. If my supply keeps up like this, I will. When is it that your supply is supposed to regulate?
post #14 of 35
6/18/08 at 2:54am
I saw this and I wonder if this is the problem you are having with you & Toby. I noticed Sophie seems to show some of the symptoms and I think my overabundant supply is the issue. Sophie also bites, but only usually when my milk flow is at its fastest.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/fast-letdown.html

We also have super fussy baby here in the evenings with cluster feeding which I though might be something I was doing wrong, but Kellymom assured me it is normal. That is what I was looking for advice for, but thought of you when I saw the above link.
post #15 of 35
6/18/08 at 10:18am
Oh man! I feel your pain! I've gone through two boxes of disposable nursing pads the last week alone (cloth is like a joke...it's sopped and gross within such a short time I gave up) and also fountain spray from both breasts at random times and when I letdown. I was also like this with my last. I want to say that around 2months it stopped...but I can't remember for sure.
post #16 of 35
6/18/08 at 12:40pm
Thread Starter 
Heather, OMG. That is us! I'm already block nursing and nursing him uphill as well.
post #17 of 35
6/18/08 at 1:46pm
Thanks for the link. That seems to be our problem here, too.
post #18 of 35
6/18/08 at 2:09pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by seren View Post
Thanks for the link. That seems to be our problem here, too.
We should start a support group. It's sooo frustrating!
post #19 of 35
6/18/08 at 2:09pm
If you push your nipple straight in it "turns off the tap", so to speak. That might buy you some more time (that's how lilypadz work, they hold the nipple in). Anytime I feel myself begin to leak, that's what I do. I rarely wear pads.
post #20 of 35
6/18/08 at 2:14pm
Mine clicks due to the fast letdown thing . . . makes her gassy, so she really needs burping. It kinda sucks - I had the same thing with #2 . . . actually, I wondered if it's so fast because I rarely leak, maybe it builds up too much (maybe pushing the nipples in works because I have the tendency to hold it in? Or maybe I have fast letdown because I push the nipples to not let it out? Hmmmm, chicken or the egg . . . )
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: May 2008
This thread is locked  
Mothering › Forums › Archives › Pregnancy Archives › May 2008 › When does the leaking stop?????