Is my milk drying up?

[canofworms]

Dd3 is 13.5 months old and is breastfed just at bedtime. However, I get no let-down now and I've missed a couple of nights and not felt "full" at all. I think she is getting something though as I can see her swallowing as she feeds.

I'm wondering if I've not much milk left and the time has come to stop. She takes milk in a beaker really well and I think I'm carrying on just for my benefit now.

Any experience/advice please?

will be interested to see what the experts say but I would say if I was in your situation I would see it as a natural close to a fabulous thing.

I think bf can tail off if you are only feeding once a day - however, I don't get any let-down or feel full and DS still feeding twice a day at 17 mo. Do you want to carry on?

Not necessarily - have a listen to see whether you can hear her swallowing (or yank her mouth open to see if you can see any milk, as I once did with DS1 ).

In my experience, the longer you BF for, the less likely you are to get engorged (once you get past the six-month stage, roughly).

BTW, it won't be just for your benefit (although in my opinion there's nothing wrong with the mother bf-ing partly for her own benefit) - your DD is still getting a lot of nutritional and emotional benefit too.

Policy - don't think I'd dare yank her mouth open now she's got 10 teeth !

Thanks for all the encouragement