Covid booster triggered severe nursing aversion?

[1concernedmummy]

I am clutching at straws, but having read about women missing periods after vaccination am wondering if any nursing mothers have experienced nursing aversion post vaccination?

I am still feeding my 2.5 year old several times a day. I have definitely been feeling like I would like to stop for a while, but in the last week this has escalated to a severe nursing aversion.

I had my Moderna booster on the 15th December. I did not have this issue with the previous 2, so maybe it is not related, but it is such a coincidence.. .and the feelings are truly horrendous.

At that age, surely a child doesn’t get their main nutrients from breast milk? I’d have thought it was more that they feed for comfort. I think that linking a vaccine with having an aversion to breast feeding is a little far fetched tbh

Just thinking about it and it was not recorded at my vaccinations that I am breastfeeding. I asked the nurse and she said they are not gathering this data anymore as the vaccine has been shown to be so safe for breastfeeding mothers.

I had a sudden and severe nursing aversion when I was around 22 weeks, pregnant, and toddler just turned 2. You have my sympathy.
I have heard it can be nutrient based too. Are you missing anything in your diet?

I had it with my first jab but not with subsequent ones. I put it down to bring a bit dehydrated from a temperature and bring tired as a side effect as these have been previous triggers for these feelings. Hope it passes soon for you

I stopped BFing when my DS had teeth and would bite my nipple and laugh.
Little bugger !!

Often dehydration.

You can make the decision to stop though. With my 2 yr old I explained about growing up and that mummy was running out of milk, said I'd stop in May and went shopping with her for a special cup to have her big girl milk in, and said there would be lots of cuddles and cup milk but not mummy milk. The polar neacjs and shirts overly the top for a few days to reduce impromptu access! They are old enough to understand. Little which helps..if it's no longer working for you than that's ok. They soon start beating and drinking more different things when milk isn't on the menu.

Make sure you're having your vitamins and helping hydrated. If your body hasn't got enough for you, it'll tell you to stop sharing

*keeping

i imagine that ,as the jab can impact short term on peoples cycles and induce bleeds in women who are post-menopausal, it may likewise impact on the hormones that help you to sustain BF??? we have evolutionary prompts that would move you away from BF a toddler as your body wants you to conceive a new baby so perhaps your body is also thinking its time to stop?!

I haven’t experienced that. I’ve I’m also feeding a toddler but I originally had AZ and then Pfizer. I’m wondering is your period due, I tend to hate feeding during my period and I have low supply but when I remember to take magnesium supplements that helps. Your milk will also have more antibodies at the moment (hopefully passing on some protecting from
Covid) and this may make your little one feed more.

OP, you may be right, given that it does seem to affect menstruation, it could also relate to nursing aversion which does seem to be very hormone related in my experience.

On the other hand, it could be just chance, as nursing aversion at that age is quite common. I suspect there is really no way to tell if it's one or the other.

Anyway, my own feeling is that at that age, if you are having NA, you should have no qualms about cutting back and stopping if that's what you'd like to do.

I had awful sudden aversions, on and off, between 2y6m and 3y6m. Unrelated to anything, medically (this was pre-pandemic). Lots of people find magnesium spray helps. Don't do like I did, though, and go straight to the full dose - follow the instructions and build up gradually, unless you like to be kept awake all night with the most intense burning-itching sensation you've ever known!