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Leaking boobs long after stopped breastfeeding

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JoshandJamie · 19/10/2006 21:08

I stopped breastfeeding my son when he was 4 or 5 months old. He's now 13 months old. I've been on the depo provera (or however it's spelt) injection for contraception since my 6 weeks post natal check. As a result I haven't had a proper period of cycle since. BUt I do get some spotting occassionally, and whenever that happens, my breasts start to ooze milk.

I have now come off the injection as I don't particularly like and I think my body is about to either have a period or is just adapting to normal hormones again, but my boobs have been tingling like mad - like a letdown feeling and again, have been oozing milk.

Is this normal? Has it happened to anyone else? Should I see a doctor about it?

OP posts:
2ndtime · 19/10/2006 21:53

I could squirt DH in the face across the kitchen table about 12 months after stopping breast feeding! Quite how I discovered that I'm not sure, but I'm sure it's pretty normal (producing milk,not squirting your man !). Not sure when it did stop, but it did, eventually.

angmarie · 20/10/2006 08:06

With my first child I was still leaking milk when she was 2 1/2 and the doctor told me it was to do with hormone tablets I was taking for endometrosis.
With my second child I stopped breastfeeding after a couple of weeks and the health visitor told me to put cabbage leaves in my bra to drain the milk off , it did work but was quite messy as the milk was running out it drained them that much

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