advice from my formula feeding moms. I just had my baby friday and im formula feeding. I have been wearing a sports bra like my doctor told me to but I can tell my left boob has got milk coming in. its enlarged and hurts really bad. what is the best thing I can do to dry the milk up and stop the pain?
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Cabbage Leaves and Breastfeeding
Cabbage leaves are used by some women to help reduce breast swelling and relieve the pain and discomfort that breast engorgement or weaning a baby from breastfeeding can cause. Researchers do not know if there is a property within the cabbage itself that helps to decrease the pain and swelling, or if the swelling goes down because the cabbage leaves are acting as cold compresses.
Either way, studies show that if your breastfeeding and you put cold cabbage leaves directly on your breasts, it's not only soothing, but it can be soothing can help lessen your breast pain and swelling.
How to Use Cabbage Leaves for Breast Engorgement or Weaning
Before you use the cabbage leaves to treat your breast engorgement, they need to be cold. So, place a head of cabbage in the refrigerator. You can use green or red cabbage, but red cabbage is more likely to leaves stains or discoloration on yournursing bra and breastfeeding clothing.Once the head of cabbage is chilled, remove it from the refrigerator. Peel off the outer layer of leaves, and throw them away. Then, pull off two of the inner leaves and place the head of cabbage back into the refrigerator so it will be ready the next time you need it. In the sink, use cold water to rinse off the two leaves you just removed. You want to be sure that they are clean and free from dirt, pesticides, and residue.
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After you rinse the leaves, carefully cut out the stem from the center of each leaf. Once you remove the stem, the leaves will be able to fit nicely over your breasts without covering your nipples.Now, you can place the clean, cold cabbage leaves on your breasts. Wrap the leaves around your breast, but leave your nipples exposed. If you keep the leaves off of your nipples, it will help the skin around your nipples to stay dry and intact.
Hold the cabbage leaves in place on your breasts the same way you would hold a cold compress. Or, you can wear a bra to keep the leaves in place for you.You can leave the cabbage leaves on your breasts for approximately 20 minutes or until they become warm. Then, remove them from your breasts. Repeat as necessary.
When to Stop Using the Cabbage Leaves if You're Still Breastfeeding or Pumping
If you are still breastfeeding, or pumping for your baby, and just want to use cabbage leaves to help decrease breast swelling and relieve breast engorgement, you should stop this treatment once you notice that your breasts are feeling better, and the swelling has gone down. The use of cold compresses or cold cabbage leaves on your breasts can help to lessen breast swelling and engorgement, but it can also decrease your breast milk supply. If you continue to use cold cabbage leaves on your breasts after the swelling and engorgement are relieved, you could end up with a greater decrease in your breast milk supply than you wanted.
Cabbage Leaves, Weaning, and Drying Up
If you're weaning your baby and you want to dry up your breast milk, you don't have to worry about the cabbage leaves treatment causing a low breast milk supply. As you stop breastfeeding, you can continue to use the cabbage leaves on your breasts for as long as they are helpful.
Sources:
American Academy of Pediatrics. New Mother’s Guide To Breastfeeding. Bantam Books. New York. 2011.
Lawrence, Ruth A., MD, Lawrence, Robert M., MD. Breastfeeding A Guide For The Medical Profession Seventh Edition. Mosby. 2011.
Massage it with a warm rag and hand express. Pumping might be the only thing that gives u relief. Pump and dump if you can. I know it's painful but you don't want to get mastitis
hand express just to get relief a little bit. stay away from hot water and benadryl is supposed to help dry up your milk.
i havent nursed or.pumped and my left boob is as hard as a rock and hurts so bad
I did both and my milk dried up after I just quit nursing and I quit pumping.
When can I start giving my son regular milk? He turns 10 months in 2 days. I bought unsweetened almond milk yesterday so he can try. Would that be okay? I’m lowkey tired of him on formula but I mean he’s still a baby lol.
Hey girlies! I plan on breast feeding my LO as much as I can. I also plan to formula feed when needed. Have any of you moms tried organic formulas? How was it? Experience?
so my husband wants to feed are baby but the thing is that I will be breastfeeding so idk how it would work. he was thinking that when he wants to feed him he would give him formula but I just want my baby to have breast milk. so then he said why don't you pump your milk out and I'll feed it to him and i thought that would be the best thing but then I'm scared that my baby will get use to the bottle. I need help idk what to do because my husband really wants to feed him :/ and we need to come up...
Breastfeeding.
I am a HUGE breastfeeding advocate. No, I will NOT shame you if you decide to formula feed, and will not tolerate anyone else doing so on my post. Everyone has their own reasons on why they feed their child the way they see fit.
so i had my wic appointment at the begining of the month...i have been breast feeding/formula feeding. they gave me a little bit of formula but my milk has gone away...so my question is.....would be messed up to call and see if i could get more formula or should i wait 3 months til my next appointment? what would you mommas do?
thanks ladies @jgruenwald @kristen__xzy @lena916 @zaysmomma. I have never had this problem i formula fed my first and my boobs never developed milk so its all new to me