Drying up? How quickly does it happen?

[knittynoodle]

SIL says that when her DS was 5 months, she one day just dried up. She pumped 120ml one day and then the next, no milk! (She is a bit of a fibber sometimes so how true this is I dont know)

My other friend EBF for 14 months and she said most of her milk was gone in a week.

Can it really go that quickly?

No, not possible.
It is poss for expressing yeild to drop but not for milk to dry up suddenly like that.

Sometimes the let down fails to 'work' as a result of shock.

Sometimes milk dwindles gradually without a mother realising.

Someone feeding for 14 mths might well have been feeding only once or twice a day. Then she might well stop feeling as if she was producing after a week.

No, tiktok is right as usual.

I stopped feeding at 14 months, 8 months later it's still possible to get a few drops of milk out.

Thats good news. I overslept on saturday and missed 2 feeds - DP had used expressed milk from our stock. Started panicing Id messed it all up!

Did wonder about SIL's story... she says she expressed every feed so maybe supply did dwindle, but 120ml to nothing is a huge drop.

Thanks!