I wasn't as educated
about milk supply then and it definitely affected my milk supply.
Not exact matches
After
about 7 months my
milk supply started to back off,
then I got really sick and was taking medicine to dry up my sinuses, and that pretty much dried up my
milk supply.
If you are experiencing issues with
milk supply or if you are even mildly concerned
about it,
then you may want to be more cautious
about which medications you take.
I almost gave up after a few weeks, but
then read articles
about how to increase your
milk supply.
Then, after you've healed from childbirth and established your breast
milk supply, you can begin to think
about getting your body back.
But most of the time if you're just doing these things that we're talking
about and you probably wouldn't have a drastic plummet of
milk supply, you would see a decrease and you could kind of, look, in my experience most women are able to kind of play with what works for them so, they're not necessarily having a low
supply and
then having a get it back up so they're more kind of playing with what works with their baby and their body
The great thing
about this mom's confession is that breastmilk works on a
supply and demand system, so if she's got enough
milk for her baby, and
then her husband is nursing from her, he'll support her
milk production even more.
So Sudafed is known to reduce
milk supply, so if you're breastfeeding and not weaning you should not take Sudafed because I think there was a study that came out that said over 24 hours it reduces your
milk supply by
about 25 %, if that, you're not doing this intentionally
then that, that can be dangerous.
If learning that certain drugs used in labour (and they are not talking only
about pain relief drugs in this study) means that these drugs will be used less,
then tens of thousands of women could potentially be SPARED the difficulty of low
milk supply.