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Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

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When did you stop having to wear breast pads?

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:19

It's 15 weeks and I am still doing the comedy multiple spurts of milk across the room every time DS decides to take a break from feeding.

Will this wear off?

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theUrbanNixie · 01/05/2008 11:21

i stopped wearing breast pads when ds was about 25 weeks - about the same time i started weaning. i had a massive supply and leaked all over the place!!

i still do comedy spurts now - usually first thing in the morning when i'm very full! he's nearly 16 months!!

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:23

oh great!

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MrsBadger · 01/05/2008 11:25

stopped needing them all the time at about 6wks, but at 6m my letdown (randomly) got a lot stronger and I started doing the comedy squirt if she popped off near the start of a feed.

I hated the damn things and they don't help with the comedy squirts anyway.

Ceolas · 01/05/2008 11:26

Still wearing mine at 8 months.

If I don't wear them I leak, if I wear them I don't!

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:26

I hate them too, I can't find a brand I really like (am using boots as best of a bad bunch), don't get on with the washable ones, but if I don't wear them I leak all over the place.

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Ceolas · 01/05/2008 11:27

For disposable I used Johnsons. I can get away with washables now though.

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:27

So the whole 'it sorts itself out by 12 wekks' thing was a lie told to me by a friend then?

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:28

the Johnsons ones left little gel crystals all over my nipples and I worried about them going in DS's mouth

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lilyloo · 01/05/2008 11:34

i have found asda's own called 'little angels' to be good and cheap !

mum2oneloudbaby · 01/05/2008 11:34

bellabear, have you tried tommee tippee i'm very leaky and still have my moments at 22 weeks.

these are a bit expensive but the only ones i found that work through the night

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 11:39

tommee tippee are like lansinoh ones aren't they? Quite like the pads but the adhesive bit is annoying whether or not I use it, and they are individually wrapped which I don't like [polishes environmental halo] [but not enough to use reusables]

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Tapster · 01/05/2008 12:28

11-12 months I'm afraid. I found Johnson's the most absorbent after about 6 months I moved onto the thiner lansinoh which was a bit of a relief.

amazonianwoman · 01/05/2008 13:36

Think I was OK after about 4-5 mths, just wore them overnight after that when I'd leak on the (very rare) nights that they slept through

StarlightMcKenzie · 01/05/2008 13:38

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Hillbilly · 01/05/2008 13:51

I had to wear them the whole time I was breastfeeding. Even when I was down to one bf a day I would still leak!

I have just stopped bf after 6 months and that's one side of it that I will NOT miss!

Pingle · 01/05/2008 13:53

Hi
This the the closest subject I could find to what I want to know. Hope you can help. I stopped breastfeeding 2 weeks ago when my son was 6 months. I was giving him 4 feeds a day and the evening one was a bottle. Boobs went mad when I stopped (cos I'm now back to work and also taking medication for arthritis which means baby milk now toxic) and hurt so much I did a couple of pumps in the first days. 2 weeks on they are not so big and I thought were starting to go down. But just today my right boob has become engorged and painful again (the other one is still goping down so I look like a freak!). I haven't pumped for 3 days so not sure what is going on. When will it stop? Should I pump again or will that just make it worse? How long til my boobs go back to normal?
Any pearls of wisdom gratefully received.

Pidge · 01/05/2008 13:55

First time round I was still having to wear them at 12 months, possibly longer.

Second time round I seemed to be much more efficient at milk production and barely leaked at all after the first 3 months or so.

(Pingle, sorry, no pearls from me!)

Titter · 01/05/2008 13:56

pingle - you should start your own thread - click on 'breast and bottle feeding' and start you own thread in the topic

to OP - i wore them fo as long as i bfed, both times (9 months and 7 months)

greenhill · 01/05/2008 14:20

My DD is 14mo and I still have to use them. I've got a very strong let down reflex, all I have to do is look at my own nipples pre morning/night feed and they're off! They have stopped tingling in the shower but I can be caught unawares if merely thinking of my DD b/feeding.

solo · 01/05/2008 14:23

about 12 months i think...hard to remember. i know i stopped but then started leaking big style so had to go back to them some months after stopping wearing that fab accessory!

oiFoiF · 01/05/2008 14:23

i never had to wear them either

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 15:38

thanks for all the responses, looks like I'm in for the long haul!

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cosima · 01/05/2008 15:40

i don't need them at 10 weeks and i am still exclusively bf, and i had so much milk in the beginning that i could support the cats protection league [smug look] Sorry

JodieG1 · 01/05/2008 15:41

About a year for me, I did have a lot of milk though. I'm feeding him less now he's nearly 16 months and trying to cut the night feeds out.

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BellaBear · 01/05/2008 15:42

lol at [smug look]

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