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weaning and drying up breastmilk currently. im on week 3 dropping pumps every few days. finally down 1 ppd or 0, with only expression. however, under my nipple/underboob are SO.SORE. It’s so heavy feeling and they feel like they got punched. almost like PMS soreness in them, nipples sensitive, etc. im 5 m postpartum. I just want this pain to end. I’ve done mint tea, cabbage leaves, only expressing when engorged and im just in so much pain, holding the baby hurts or if he kicks his legs into my chest, it’s awful. How much longer can I expect of this if im down to 1 PPD if that even? I also took one dose of cabergoline but hated the side effects but that still should be working too.

currently trying to dry up my milk. My baby is five months old and I was exclusively pumping. prior to dropping pumps I was producing 30 to 35 ounces per day.

After dropping one pump every 3-5 days, I made it down to 2 pumps per day. That’s when the pain started.
Currently, I am not pumping at all unless I’m miserable. even when I do pump, I only let 1-2 oz out (about 5 mins) then stop. A week later still milk is shooting out of me, I have clogs, lumps, my boobs literally looked deformed, and my nipples are so sore because so much milk is in there. I’m doing cabbage leaves, mint tea, tight bras. Finally, the obgyn called me in cabergoline but Unfortunately, the side effects are pretty negative, so I only took one dose. But I do see that one dose is effective as it stays in your system for a long time.

Am I doing this wrong? Are the clogs just part of the process? Do I just need to pump those out for a few few minutes? Or do I just need to leave this be. I’m really over this process, holding the baby hurts, I’m ready to be done!!!

my baby is 5 months old and i am in the process of drying to my milk. i have a huge oversupply so due to the pain level, my obgyn gave me Cabergoline to help dry it up. i am supposed to take .5 twice a day broke in half. so today i have only had .25 and i need this med to wear off asap- holy shit. i am anxious, scared feeling, everytime my baby cries im spiraling out and scared he wont stop because im so anxious and ragey. I just also took my melatonin after forgetting I took this med.

how long will one dose take to wear off? whats the chances of me sleeping tonight?

did anyone take cabergoline later in postpartum? my OB called in this for me but I’m 5 months postpartum. I don’t know if she realized that, or if it will still work this late on. I’ve been pumping 30 oz per day and struggling for the last two weeks to dry up my supply. Ive dropped to 2 ppd and decreased the time pumping every 3 days. however every day my let downs are still painful, my breasts become lumpy and distorted looking from so many clogs. I told her this via mychart and she called it in. I don’t want to go through gnarly side effects if it’s too late PP to have any effect!

Baby is 5 months. We’ve done it all. reflux meds - chiropractic- dairy free breast milk - exclusively pumping as he wouldn’t latch - switched to hypoallergenic formula - speech language therapist - ruled out tongue and lip tie - gas drops - weighted feed with an IBCLC - nutramigen to alimentum rtf- sideline feeding - changed bottles - wear baby carrier etc. Even switched pediatricians offices and ended up at the er one night. nothing. just a colic diagnosis.

He’s just so miserable. All wake windows are whiny. Isn’t visibly in any pain or anything. No vomiting or diarrhea. He had mucusy stools and constipation so went to HA formula. Now I’m pumping and losing my supply for there to pretty much be no difference and now I’m driving all around to pickup formula each week..

Naps are 40 mins tops and most are 20 minutes. Chronically overtired. False starts for bedtime. Im just so exhausted and I feel like this is supposed to be somewhat of a happy time in our life and my family of four are sad. I feel robbed of the baby experience. I’m not saying I’m comparing or it should be amazing. I’m just saying I shouldn’t be so bummed out with how much crying is happening. I wear earplugs everyday. My oldest son and I don’t even talk, because I’m always trying to get a baby to nap. Which takes hours sometimes…for a 20 min nap.

We have a G.I. specialist appointment in 2.5 weeks. Im trying not to hold onto too much hope because I know everything so far has been a dead end.

Im trying so hard. Im on the phone with the pediatrician nearly weekly. I have another child to tend to who gets no attention. I can’t think with all the crying. I just want this nightmare to end

It’s me again…has anyone gotten Alimentum ready-to-feed through WIC? I know it requires a doctor’s documentation

Has anyone been able to get ready to feed formula covered by WIC? Alimentum to be exact?

Opened a bottle of alimentum rtf last night and didn’t even know it had to be refrigerated. We came off powder. I feel so dumb. Anyways, is it junk? It’s been out unrefrigerated for now 12 hours and I gave my baby 3 bottles of it :( im so scared !!

Need to dry up supply without extreme pain or mastitis. I produce 30-40 oz per day and I dropped from 5 to 4 to 3 pumps.. now im down to trying to not pump at all and only hand express when im in discomfort. Problem is im always in discomfort. I am hand expressing about .5 oz-1 oz and then again I have a let down and im miserable. Boobs are leaking and look distorted due to milk ducts clogged everywhere. Even my nipple is bending sideways and veins are popping everywhere! What can i do? I read the peppermint tea is useless as well as Sudafed which is disappointing because I was going to try that today.

On a Alimentum Rtf trial and I need to know how to use these coupons. They’re so confusing, I need help! I went to the register yesterday and the cashier tried to scan them and they did nothing. Then I look and it says “THIS IS A DIGITAL PAYMENT NOT COUPON.”
What does that mean? So those are basically nothing to me? how do I get actual coupons?

Thanks in advance! I shop at Kroger.

Just curious 👀

Baby is almost 5 months and he’s going to bed around 8:30 and up at 5am. I don’t go back to bed usually because I have to be up an hour later anyways. My sleep is all broken up because I wake up every hour out of anticipation he is going to be up, or I toss and turn, or takes me forever to decompress. Maybe hormones…?

So I’m getting about 6 hours of broken sleep. 😴

Can someone shed a light on this scenario? Baby is 5 months old and we have not gotten any real diagnosis. Was on reflux meds since 6 weeks that he didn’t respond to. Upped the dosage and still didn’t respond to. Would arch his back, stiffen up, tense, always jerky movements, would flail out of my arms doing back bends, so much colicky crying and horrendous gas pain. In the last few weeks lots of mucus in the diaper and today small strains of blood.
What I don’t understand is this: I’ve been dairy free for eight plus weeks. I’ve been soy free for two weeks. Today, we had 2 cans of nutramigen at our house, so… we tried it. He drank it no problem and we have three bottles now in him. He immediately felt relief, I could tell. I held him for the first time without him trying to jump out of my arms. He laughed, he was calm. He didn’t scream before bed. He let me hold him. He let us sit him up to burp.

wtf? How have I been df and soy free… and now a formula that’s for dairy allergy helps him? I’m so confused.

Baby is 4.5 months old and it’s been a really rough time. Haven’t enjoyed a day since he’s been born, because it’s been filled with crying and anxiety about what’s wrong or how to help him.

He was put on acid reflux meds at 6 weeks due to arching (literally backbends), refusal to lay flat or on his back, hates being burped, will scream, etc

But he also had gas pains, constipation and some very mucusy poos.

Dr had me cut dairy and I’ve been confidently dairy free for eight or more weeks. No improvement so Dr wanted to try Elecare Formula. There’s no blood in the stool or rashes.

My confusion is this… if I cut dairy, how is an HA formula going to help anything?!

is that also egg, corn, wheat, peanut etc free? is it because its ruling out all of those allergens as well? I know elecare also has soy. So how is it HA?

I guess I’m just confused if I’m doing the right thing by feeding him this versus my own milk. I just want answers.

Recently watched the Elizabeth Smart documentary and the Husband Killer Father true story. Loved (hated) them both obviously, interesting yet so disturbing. Is there anything else similar to these docs?