Hi everyone. I have a 6 month old baby,
and breast fed him for almost 3 months.
Latley, I have been having let down again.
I'll be doing something, and then all of
a sudden, my nipples will start tingling
and burning, and out comes milk!!. Is
that normal?. Sometimes it happens after
he starts fussing, and sometimes, he won't
even make a sound, i'll be mopping the
floor or something.
It just started within the last week or
two.
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mia7
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 378
Posted: 10-07-05 14:17pm
I have heard that milk comes out when the
baby is hungry!?!?
Want to hear something kind of weird?
My cousin who lives at home with her
mother got pregnant and had her baby girl.
For some weird reason my aunt started
noticing milk come out of her breasts. I
guess she said that for a long time after
she had already had all her kids, she
still had milk come out, although she did
have a couple of miscarriages afterwards.
But nobody could really explain why the
"grandma" my aunt, was all of a sudden
producing milk when her grandaughter came.
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tesfalcon
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 1
Breasts and 'Let Downs' Posted: 02-03-08 19:22pm
Neither of these situations are 'weird'.
The body responds as it has been
conditioned to to various stimuli, kinda
like Pavlov's dogs.
For the new mother who'd been nursing a
few months, that's more than enough time
for the body to develop a habit or
pattern. The most obvious stimuli is the
baby crying. Since newborns need to nurse
every 2-3 hours (or more often) around the
clock, your body would respond to the
cries of the baby to provide milk.
For the times when you were mopping the
floor or otherwise not near the baby, I
can only guess. 1) The usual nursing time
had past for whatever reason and the body
responded based on the time interval like
waking up every morning at the same time
with or without an alarm clock. 2) The
breasts hadn't gotten into synch with the
baby yet. My wife (mother of 6) often had
to deal with this situation until her body
got into the regular pattern of letting
milk down at the right time and in the
right volume. 3) A stray thought crossed
your brain to the effect of "It's about
time to nurse the baby again." That's
enough to get the breasts active. (MOF,
that was enough to get us pregnant!)
For the aunt, this is also not that weird
since once a woman was pregnant and nursed
a baby once, she would then be capable of
producing milk for any baby at any time
for the rest of her life. In olden days
before "baby formula", women could make a
living by "wet nursing" the babies of the
aristocratic women who didn't have time
for such "domestication". It was also
important since grandmothers could nurse
their grandchildren if their daughter or
daughter-in-law died when the babe was
still young.
Same thing happens to me, when i least
expect it. i have to wear breast shields
in my bra when i go out to avoid
embarrassing moments lol. sometimes my
boobs leak when other ppls babies cry...
found that a lil odd but was told by my dr
that it can happen, is normal and for me
not to worry.
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Lilly Ivy
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Posted: 02-04-08 11:03am
My sister gave her baby up for adoption in
October, so she didn't even breastfeed at
all, but for some reason had milk and not
colostrum. If she hears a baby in distress
she will leak, she HATES it.
