My daughter is 25months, and i stopped breast feeding when she was about 5months old. Still to this day i leak when i hear a baby cry or "squeeze" lol. Does anyone know when it "drys out"?
Have you talked to the doctor about it? I'd do that if that happened to me so long after nursing.
It will be interesting to see your other answers...
Dawn
I continued to produce milk for a good 2 1/2 years after I weaned. Going on the pill was what finally dried things up.
Hmm, for me, I was totally dried out about 2 months later if not a little sooner. I wasn't on birth control.
My daughter will be 5 in June and I JUST stopped lactating completely when I went on birth control about three months ago. I nursed her until she was about 26 months, so it was well over two years!
It can go on for months or even years, until menopause. Talk to your dr. about it or perhaps try some natural remedies....bind your breasts, snug, not tight, with an Ace bandage. Cabbage leaves to cool down and eventually dry up the excess milk. Take a cabbage leaf and place one in each bra cup daily, change them when they get wilted, you should dry up in about a week or so. This has been my most successful advice to all my moms believe it or not.
When I had my son, I breast fed him for about 5 months before I dried up.
Going back to work just made it hard to keep production up no matter how much I pumped and breast fed my son when I got home.
That was 14 years ago.
I still get a dried milk residue on my nipples.
If I squeeze I can still get a little moisture.
Lactation is not dependent on the ovaries so a menopausal woman or one who's had a hysterectomy can still lactate.
In cultures where breast feeding is common, grandmothers can breast feed their grand children.
