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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CABBAGE saved my life. Try it and you'll regret not having dne earlier. [/quote]

How did you use it exactly, thanks.[/quote]

Seriously, 12 hours and the milk was gone. And I was pumping 9oz per session.

Leave the cabbage in the fridge.

Peel a feel leaves flat it with rolling pin and cover your entire naked breast with it. Wear the tightest bra you can tolerate over it and wait. 20-30 min maybe. Until the leaves warm up. 
Repeat. 
Do it for 2-3 hours (I did right before bed). Lastly dip your breast in a bowl of the coldest water you can tolerate (it huuuuurts). Wear the tight bra for bed. 
My milk was gone next morning. 
If you still see milk redo it every 24 hours until it's gone. .

No mastitis and no plugged ducts for me. [/quote]

+1 for cabbage.

Buy from the grocery store. Wrap it in saran wrap and stuff in sports bra. Wear for 12+ hours 24/7. Sleep with it too. Change out.
WARNING: It smells really really really bad. DH thought it was the garbage that stunk, but it was the cabbage leaves in my bra. Your body heat initiates a chemical reaction in the cabbage.

You'll notice a decrease within hours. Completely dried up within in a day or two (depending if you had an oversupply or not). The milk gets stored deeper into the breast tissue, so keep wearing the cabbage leaves for an extra day or so.

Don't spend all that $$ on sage and sudafed (and why put extra stuff in to your body??) when cabbage leaves are quick, cheap, and effective. [/quote]

[b]MyLC said not to wear for more than 1 hour[/b] at a time since you can get candidiasis. [/quote]

My LC said just the opposite. Wear for several hours and change out 2x/day. Agree with the above posters about how quick and effective cabbage is.[/quote]

You're breeding candida on your nipple sitting with a sweaty warm cabbage leaf in your bra for that long. Yuck![/quote]

That is why the PP said she covered it with saran wrap[/quote]

If you are Saran wrapping and then putting in, you aren't really getting the benefits, leaf should touch the breast.[/quote]

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