My milk still hasn't dried up after 2 months

[listsandbudgets]

I stopped feeding ds in mid July when he was very nearly 2

I'm still getting leakage. Is it ever going to stop or should I book myself into a dairy farm? Beginning to wonder if something is wrong.

He was my second dc if it makes any difference.

Please tell me its normal starting to imagine all sorts of terrible things.

Sounds normal. The leakage will stop soon, but you will have milk there for many more months if you look for it. Check with your doc if you are at all worried.

Thanks Tiktok that's reassuring. I was a bit worried because with my first it all dried up within a couple of weeks. I also fed her until she was nearly 2.

Is there a commercial/useful opportunity here? Associated Dairies? or on a more serious note, local SCBU?

Not SCBU - she would need to express to donate milk and that would bring her milk back. Also, milk banks don't take donor milk from mothers of babies more than 6 mths.

listsandbudgets - Although it must be terribly frustrating you are still leaking this is normal. Some mums continue to experience leaking (although mostly minimal) and let down for years.

I worked with a woman who 16 years after stopping breastfeeding her third child she still occasionally leaked when near a crying baby. 9/10 it will stop however so buy a few extra breastpads in the meantime!! :)

I donated 52 pints of milk when feeding dd. I called them up about donating when DS was born but they'd changed their requirements so much I couldn't practically do it. They wanted me to record the temperature of my freezer every day, provide a suitable cool bag and deliver the milk to the hospital which was at least an hour each way by bus - only trouble was they said it shouldd not be out of the freezer for more than half an hour. I gave up on the idea :( I'd just had a baby for goodness sake I was exhausted I needed to make it easy for me and they weren't going to :(

Mummykerrie 16 years I hope it dries up quicker than that.

Lists - my DDs are 5 and 6 now, I stopped feeding the younger one when she was 14 months. If I hear a baby crying or hold a very new baby I still get that funny, tingly prickling sensation that you get just before the milk starts to flow... I don't have any milk now but I did have for a really long time after I stopped feeding, might have been as much as 2 years. Not leaking for 2 years (you'll be glad to hear!) but e.g. if I was checking my boobs in the shower I could get milk out.

I've read of elderly women going for mammogrammes and milk still being visible in the x-rays.

I guess in terms of evolution, it makes sense, and older women who had finished bfing could return to bfing years later to help other women who were having issues bfing their children..?