3mo keeps pulling off the breast - milk coming out too fast? Anything I can do?

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At about 50% of her feeds - mostly early in the day and pretty much always when I feed her sitting up - DD2 takes a few gulps then keeps pulling off and it's really difficult to get a proper feed down her. I keep winding her but it doesn't seems to help much - she just fusses away all the way through the feed and eventually I tend to just give up and assume she'll have a better feed later. She never does this during night feeds (always done lying down). I guess it may be that my milk's more abundant earlier in the day and just comes out too fast for her (it does tend to spray everywhere when she comes off). It's particularly troublesome when I'm bfing in public! DD1 never did this. Any solutions?

It comes out more slowly when you're lying down. Could you do the earlier part of the feed lying down then sit up when it starts to come out more slowly later in the feed?

Aha, that makes sense. Can lie down for some feeds but generally difficult with a toddler racing around - or in public Good tip tho, thanks.

I got a really good tip on here when I had a similar problem and it worked for me...

Let her latch on, as soon as the milk comes, pull her off for about 10 seconds, letting the 'fast' milk flow into a cloth/towel, let her latch back on when it slows down a bit.

HTH

Could you express a bit first (seems a shame to waste it ), then when the flow's slowed a bit, get her on? Only really possible if you're at home, though.

Try taking her off for a moment as milk rushes down.

Feed from one breast at feeding so she drains one boob totally.

Apply gentle pressure to areola to help stem flow.

Reposition her so she sits up a bit more as you feed her.

Express a bit before each feed until heavy flow has slowed.

And as Spidermama says; lean back with baby on top of your chest.

Thanks for all of this - I'd stupidly come to the conclusion that there was nothing I could do about this ... Should know by now there's always a solution on MN

Kellymon has a page on fast let down with some piccies of different latches to try as well as links to other pages - though you might be interested: Kellymom - Forceful let-down

Fantastic - thanks sazhig