[Erinz]

OK so I went to a slide show my midwife put on last week and as part of it she had some slides of babies latching on for the first time (awwww!) and while looking at those images I had my first little sensation of tingling in my breasts. Since then I get them every once in a while, and today while thinking about breastfeeding (just posted about it in a different thread) I totally had that tingly sensation of let down! Anyone else getting those sensations? Makes me really excited

 

[Shy0717]

I'm jealous!! So far there has been NOthing. Not even a little droplet. I know some people tend not to leak at all when they are pregnant but I'm still a little paranoid. It doesn't help that my reoccuring nightmares are about not being able to get my child to nurse *sigh*.

 

[Erinz]

Oh I haven't had a single drop either, I just don't tend towards leakage even when fully engorged! Once letdown happened though, watch out for the geysers! haha! Breastfeeding was a huge source of anxiety for me in preparation for birthing last time, I think part of that is just so normal! Hugs!

 

[Voltige]

Nope, I'm not feeling anything except extra sensitivity. I never leak either. Ever. Even when fully, completely, engorged. It made pumping very difficult, but on the flip side I never had to worry about staining shirts or wetting the bed!

I AM looking forward to the sweet intimacy of breast feeding again though. I was watching a friend nurse her 9 month old yesterday and it was just lovely! That age is so cute!!

 

[Carlin]

I've been leaking (just little droplets) since about 15 weeks, and it's definitely increased in the last 3 weeks or so. I haven't felt the let down tingle yet though - I think. This is number 1 for me so I'm not sure I'd recognize it if I felt it.

 

[boscopup]

Nothing here, and I never leak during pregnancy. I always leak in the early weeks postpartum though. Definitely have to do breast pads or I'll have a soaked shirt. I hate that feeling!

Also, my milk doesn't come in until day 4-5, but I always have plenty of milk when it does come in.

 

[groovynaturemama]

i don't have the letdown feeling, but i am making colostrum (and dd is trying to nurse every chance she gets after not having anything come out of them since i was 14 weeks or so). when i was pg. w/ dd, i didn't even get a drop of colostrum and i had a lot of anxiety around being able to make milk. well, i made a TON of milk once day 3 hit, but dd was badly tongue tied and we struggled with nursing for about 3 weeks before we got it down. when i letdown my milk, there was no mistaking the feeling; it felt like my breasts were having contractions!

 

[goin' green]

I've had no let down feelings, and no drops either (which I did have last time). But we'll see if after the baby I'm shooting milk to the other side of the shower when I'm showering like last time! That was hilarious!

 

[pearl2]

That's exciting about the tingling let down feeling. I secretly will admit that I like to squeeze a bit of colostrum out because I like watching it pool up on the surface in all these little holes. I don't do it a lot though because I don't want to produce even more before my baby is here to drink it!

We had a lactation consultant come to our Bradley class last night, and she just confirmed that I feel pretty prepared. I also feel very, very supported if I feel like I have a problem that needs help. Most of my friends/family are very supportive of breastfeeding and I don't feel like I will hesitate to call for help or go to a meeting if I need it. I feel really fortunate to know that there is that support net if I need it!

 

[happyhippimama]

I have gotten the tingling a couple times in the last week. My milk dried up around week 15 and dd still tries to nurse. But the past week or 2 I have gotten the tingling and a little bit of something comes out if I squeeze. It is clear, so not sure what it is though.

 

[tubulidentata2]

I have rarely felt the tingly feeling ever, and I am still nursing DD. When I was pregnant with DD, the only thing that made me think my body was getting ready was the increase in breast size. Nothing else changed at all. I was even pumping during labor (to try to speed labor), and nothing happened. But breastfeeding worked just fine once DD was born.

 

[boscopup]

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Originally Posted by pearl2 We had a lactation consultant come to our Bradley class last night, and she just confirmed that I feel pretty prepared. I also feel very, very supported if I feel like I have a problem that needs help. Most of my friends/family are very supportive of breastfeeding and I don't feel like I will hesitate to call for help or go to a meeting if I need it. I feel really fortunate to know that there is that support net if I need it!

Oh that's wonderful!

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I've had to have help with both my babies, for different reasons (first one was a 29 weeker and started on a bottle... second one had a "short tongue", as best as we could tell from the symptoms in the Breastfeeding Answer Book), so I had an LLL leader at my house helping me out both times. I'm SOOOOO glad I was comfortable enough to go seek help when I needed it. I breastfed my preemie boy until he was 2 years 3 weeks old (I was 5 months pregnant and dried up, so he ditched me for his racecar big boy bed the day we moved him out of his crib

), and I breastfed my full term boy for about 21 months (gave him a nudge as we were TTC and having hormone issues, plus I was feeling "done" and he was barely nursing anyway - never was a comfort nurser).

I love to see when first time moms are well prepared to ask for help if needed. Not every mom needs help, but if you are one of the ones that do, it can be a bit scary to ask for help if you don't know anyone or know where to go. This is why I always recommend first time moms go to LLL meetings while they're pregnant, so they get to know the leaders and feel comfortable asking for help.

I'm *hoping* I won't need help this time. I at least know what to do if baby has a real problem with latching like my last one did (DH would spoon feed about 1/2 oz to calm down starving baby, while I pumped a bit to get the breast "prepared" and make it easier to latch, then DH would transfer baby to my breast... DH was SO helpful with it all

). We only had to spoonfeed for about a day and a half, and it got us from not-peeing-all-night jaundiced baby to healthy baby very quickly without hurting my supply.