Question About Breastmilk. - Kiowa,KS

Updated on September 13, 2011
N.B. asks from Albany, CA
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Hello moms, my daughter is 2 now and i had stopped nursing her when she was20-22 months old....i didn't have enough milk,but i guess,when she sucked it she use to get it...she asks for my milk now and then...but i deny..she was a late teether so the main reason for me to stop nursing her was that when she sucked,she started biting too. Now coming to my question- even now i am getting milk from both my breasts. Usually i get it only when i sqeeze it,but day before yesterday my left breast was dripping. I sqeezed out the milk, from both the breasts, the colour of the milk from left breast was white and was thin,but the milk from the right breast was bit more on the thicker side,and the colour was also a bit different, it was little yellowish. Is this normal?

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P.O.

answers from Tampa on

Your supply was not disappearing - her needs changed and your supply changed to what she needed. You COULD go back to breastfeeding her on demand and for comfort and revitalizing purposes if you choose - your daughter obviously wouldn't mind.

The thinner clear white is usually foremilk (more for rehydration and thirst quenching) whereas a slightly thicker milk that is opaque white or slightly yellow/blue/green/orange - depending on what you are eating - is the hindmilk (nutrient and fat dense for weight gain and nutrition).

You will continue to produce milk until menopause... it won't be noticeable or cause engorgement, but it will be present at the most minimal amounts that will allow your body to quickly re-lactate if necessary,

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S.D.

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Most women produce milk for years after weaning, many until menopause. If she wants to nurse, I'd let her. If she bites, tell her no biting and make her stop nursing right then. She'd learn quickly that bite=no milk.
If you don't want to nurse her any more, offer to cuddle when she asks. She probably misses the closeness of nursing since she was force-weaned and doesn't know how to ask for the bonding experience that nursing provides. We see this a lot in kids who aren't allowed to self-wean when they are ready. When she asks for milk, ask her if she'd like to rock/read a book/cuddle, whatever, it may just be the closeness she's looking for.

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E.E.

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I don't know if you're had your period return or not but my SIL always found that she leaked a LOT of milk after she had weaned her kids as her period was returning. I've always been pregnant when my kids stopped BFing so I can't speak from personal experience but hormonal changes are often linked to changes in breastmilk.

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C.J.

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You can produce milk for a long time after stopping. I think I stopped at around six or seven months AFTER we stopped breastfeeding.

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J.F.

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She no longer needs to breast feed at 2. My niece just took my great-niece to see the Dentist which the ped sent her to because there is something wrong with her teeth. The Dentist told her she had breast feed to long and she needs to stop before her teeth get worse. You can go to your ob/gyn and get a shot to dry your milk up. I did bf my daughter and stopped when she bite so I am not against bf.

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