Breastfeeding while pregnant - when did you dry up?

[CatRash]

I'm 5+4 and breastfeeding my 21 month old still however it appears that in the last couple of days I've dried up. She'll ask for boob then say she 'don't like it' and cover it up.

I was hoping to dry up in order to stop breastfeeding in a natural, gradual way but I'm surprised it's happened so quickly. Is it normally this quick?

You’re not ‘drying up’. Apparently the flavour of breast milk changes with pregnancy which is probably what she’s responding to. Some will carry on through regardless, and you’ll find yourself tandem-feeding, some really don’t like it and self-wean. But it’s a change in flavour, not volume/milk production.

I got pregnant and immediately hated breastfeeding and stopped. My body just told me it had enough to do! DD was cool about it, we just cuddled with a cup of milk at the times I would have fed.

I didn't. I weaned DC1 off when I was about 30 weeks into my pregnancy with Dc2.

Mine didn’t either.

DS1 was down to just a bedtime feed which was taking ages (so maybe something changing or maybe he just liked it!).

My nipples were more sensitive and I was exhausted. I stopped and told DS1 they weren’t working any more. He didn’t complain and I wish I’d stopped earlier!

He was 22m. I was 22w pg.

I breastfed DD all through my pregnancy with DS. My milk didn't dry up but did change flavour. It goes quite salty and lots of nurselings don't like the taste - think salted caramel! I'm now nursing DS through pregnancy number 3 and he's already commenting on it tasting different at 15 weeks. If he stops, fine but if he wants to continue also fine by me!

My milk did dry up. At around 20 weeks so it can and does happen. DD continued to 'dry nurse' until I weaned her off when I was 7 months pregnant.

My milk didn’t stop between DS1&2 (leaked at night from stopping feeding DS1 until DS2 was born). Was handy when DS2 needed expressed milk in NICU.

Thank you all - maybe the taste has changed and she doesn't like it although I'm not able to hand express any at all which made me think I've dried up...?

She asked for it a couple of times today but either had one suck then pulled off or just looked at it and told me to 'close it' and looked at me like I'm gross for even getting it out 😂

DS1 weaned himself off when I was 12 weeks pregnant. He was only nine months, I think he went off the taste. Probably not coincidentally the morning sickness kicked in when I stopped breastfeeding. I was hoping I'd got away with it, but sadly not.

@CatRash it is perfectly plausible to think your milk has dried up, research suggests as many as 70% of pregnant breastfeeding mothers experience complete drying up of their milk due to hormones. It it hasn’t completely dried up it may have significantly reduced, maybe resulting in her being a little confused.