breastfeeding a clomid baby- was your milk supply ok?

[alex8]

I was reading on another thread about how some mothers who had taken clomid to get pregnant then had problems with their milk supply. (The evidence was anecdotal rather than being in a specific study). Before I start to give myself another thing to fret about I wanted to know how many mothers here had no problems with their supply?

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No problem whatsoever - DS1 was a clomid baby and was exclusively bfed to six months, then till he self-weaned at nearly 17mo - I expressed when I went back to work part time with him. Now I'm expressing for DS2 when I'm at work, feeding him and expressing for the milk bank as well.

Just call me LactatingLil!

thansk for that. I may have got you confused with another poster but did you have gestational diabetes too?

I always wanted to do the milk bank thing but never got around to it. I may look into it again.

Yes, I had GD too (tis Hunker posting with a hamstery namechange ). Do you have it too?

no problem whatsoever .. DD was a baby conceived on Clomid .. exclusively bf till 6 months .. bf till 11 months .. absolutely no difference to DS (not clomid)

have NEVER heard this before

Can be to do with having PCOS, Twig.

I actually don't understand where the link could be either .. because clomid doesn't build up in the system it is a cycle by cycle usage .. the hormones that start the whole bf process come with childbirth don't they?

what can be to do with having PCOS?

I had PCOS before conceiving DS (naturally)

Milk production issues. Tis rare though. I have PCOS too and, as I have said, have no problem producing milk by the bucketload.

yes, I guessed your real name but I tend to muddle up a lot of posters in my head. (I have you muddled with all the other ones starting with h for some reason). Yes I have gd for the second time. Were you the one that refused formula when you son was born? And also were one the one that expressed colustum antenatally? My son was cup fed formula and also tube fed it when he was taken to the scbu when his sugar levels were still low after 24 hrs. I hand expressed colustum but only after the birth. When my milk came in I expressed that too until he got latched on.

I just wondered were your sons sugar levels monitored? I would like not to ff but not if its really necessary. Also how long before birth did you do the colustum expressing (will probably be having baby at 38 wks).

thanks twiglett. It was just something tiktok said on another thread that she had heard anecdotally. But off course I am a born worrier who just waits for something new to stress over.

Yes, I hand-expressed colostrum, but only postnatally because I wasn't organised enough to do it antenatally. Do you have a diabetes midwife - can you say to her you'd like to do this and ask her to provide you with some sterile syringes/bungs?

And yes, I refused formula for DS2. I have since read a lot and discovered I was exactly right to do what I did and that the hospital were being really shit in their timings of the heelprick tests. Will post a link later - have to go and feed DS2 now.

Colostrum and EBM better for sugar levels than formula though.

I don't often see the midwife, but I can ask as they are all very friendly. I look forward to the link. It will be nice to have the info.

DD was a clomid baby due to pcos and I did have milk supply problems.Only lasted 6 weeks,it's only through posts on here that I even correlated the two though.
Ds concieved naturally 11 yrs later ,no ,milk supp;y problems.

alex, just to reiterate, this is something I have heard anecdotally, and there is no papers that I am aware of . I mentioned it on a thread which discussed whether there were any physical reasons why a mother might start off at a disadvantage when it came to producing milk - and this link with clomid was told to me by someone who reckoned they had seen it in women they were in touch with. I stressed at the time of posting that it was anecdotal - and you have some great posts here which tell you the opposite

Yes I knew it but I wanted to know if some people had no probs. I don't know any other clomid mothers who breastfed to ask.

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bumping for hunkermunker as she said she would post a link

thanks