Metoclopramide to boost supply

[LaDiDaDi]

Has anyone got any experience of this using metoclopramide to boost their supply of breastmilk? I'm going to ask gp for some but wonder how effective it will be? I don't want to post my longwinded circumstances again for fear of boring the pants off you all but suffice to say I am mix feeding and my supply doesn't seem to be keeping up with dd's needs no matter how much time she spends at the breast.

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We changed from Metoclopramide to Domperidone (Motilium). The dose our hospital uses is 10mg 3 times a day. You can buy it over the counter but should be able to get a prescription.

It will boost supply as long and you are feeding/expressing 3 hourly at least.

She sleeps for longer periods at night, 5-7 hours, but during the day she feeds really frequently. Appointment for 10.20.
How quickly should I see an effect?

Usually 2-3 days.

I've used domperidone 20mg three times a day recently. Worked a treat.

domperidone does work, I used it. it about doubled my puny breast milk, which was great. it's actually an anti sea-sickness drug - confused the living daylights out of my pharmacist, kept asking me if i was a sailor.

I was allergic to metachlopromide (sp?). Paralyzed my face muscles and one arm temporarily. Bear in mind as apparently it's not so very unusual.

I've started domperidone 20mg three times a day. I found some more info on it on a breasfeeding website. Lucky I did too as the GP hadn't heard of it being used to increase breastmilk production. I must have been convincing though as she happily agreed to prescribe it. Fingers crossed that it does the trick. I don't mind mix feeding in that I'm not adamantly against formula and I quite like knowing that she will take milk from a bottle if she needs a feed and I'm not with her but I am keen that she continues to get at least some breastmilk.