How To Decrease Breastmilk Supply?
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Anonymous
| I know there have been many breastfeeding posts recently but need help. I started off feeding and pumping two hours as recommended to get my milk in and a strong supply. I was making way too much milk - 50-60oz/day -, and totally lost most of supply trying to decrease it to a more manageable supply. I was able to build it back up over the last week, but now I’m in the same situation. I’m back up to 50oz and I would prefer to be between 30-40oz/day. I have been pumping since two weeks because my letdown is too fast and he doesn’t eat enough at the breast to get the fatty milk. How do I decrease my supply without tanking it? |
Anonymous
| Don’t. I would freeze everything and just stop pumping when you have enough milk to get your baby to 1 year. |
Anonymous
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Why do you need to pump at all now? Just hand-express before you nurse and nurse a regular schedule.
I certainly wouldn’t keep pumping now and freezing it! It’s newborn milk and shouldn’t be frozen for more than six months. |
Anonymous
OP said she can’t nurse because her letdown is too forceful. Do you have any idea how difficult and painful it will be to hand express such a large amount of milk? |
Anonymous
Milk can be frozen for a year. I gave my 6 month old milk frozen between 1-3 month and both the pediatrician and lactation consultant said it was fine. |
Anonymous
| You could try manually expressing with a haaka to get over the initial forceful let down. |
Anonymous
| OP here. I tried hand expressing and using a Haakaa but that gave me very painful clogs in my breasts. |
Anonymous
OP here. He is used to eating from a bottle. My milk is too forceful and he chokes eating it. My baby is no longer a newborn but I read you can freeze milk in a deep freezer for 12 months and use it. We have used frozen milk from when he was a newborn to rotate supply and he had never had any issues with it. |
Anonymous
OP here. I would do that but we are running out of freezer space. I will have to feed him freezer milk everyday to rotate my stash to keep room in my freezer. |
Anonymous
| Cabbage leaves in bra |
Anonymous
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There are plenty of low supply mamas who would love your extra. Consider donating it.
Not my problem (so no personal experience) but a friend with forceful letdown said she laid back and that helped her baby. |
Anonymous
No. That will dry your supply up. |
Anonymous
| I’m with PP. Pumping sucks. I pumped 40-50 ounces a day and froze it all. I was able to stop pumping at 6 months and had enough milk to make it almost a year. My friend did something similar but didn’t have that large of a supply. She stopped at 6 months and fed 1-2 bottles of breast milk with formula. I would keep going and stop pumping early. Pumping will ever much harder when you a mobile baby and you need to watch him all the time. |
Anonymous
| Stop pumping if you have no room for breast milk. |
Anonymous
How else do you expect her to feed her baby? |