pregnant, no milk, but still breastfeeding?

[Catherine]

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

I know that it is not unusual for pregnancy hormones to cause milk supply to drop (despite continued and unchanged feeding)...I am 15 weeks now.

I breastfeed through my second pregnancy without decrease (my daugther was 19 - 28 mths during that pregnancy), or at least no decrease that I noticed, and I even night weaned.

This pregnancy my son is 2 1/2 onwards. He doesn't care that there is no milk...he is carrying on 'business as usual'. I am happy to do this (it isn't hurting).

and whilst there is soooo much more to breastfeeding than milk, I am feeling a little ripped off. This will be the first winter my daughter faces without breastmilk, and now my son too! I am being paranoid but I have a cold and always felt so powerful knowing that as long as they had my milk, they were being boosted from anything I picked up.


So has anyone else lost their milk when pregnant, but continued to feed? Did your milk return before birth?

xo

[HotI]

just wondering, how do you know there is no milk? i fed through pregnancy and know my milk decreased but don't know if it ever fully stopped or even when it changed consistency because i never expressed to find out. i think i was probably abit scared to find that the milk had stopped, and dd was still feeding so i just went with the flow.

[onthefly]

Mine did dry up,, but that was due to the IVF meds more than anything. DS fed till 9-10 weeks before giving up. It's likely there is some milk there still, though perhaps not as much, or as free-flowing as before.
Hope you all stay well this winter

[Catherine]

HotI:
I was suspecting, it felt different...I used to be able to express some drops in the shower - now nothing!
So I asked my son: "did you get any milk", and without coming off the breast, he shook his head and carried on.

I have never been any good at expressing (never any need), and I know that it is no indication of supply...but son says no, and there is not milk in his mouth, so I think it is gone. Still...happy to let him comfortnurse.

MadB:
Thanks for that, worst I ever get is a mild cold (touch wood) so hoping that will be it for the family! xo

[HotI]

my dd kept feeding and i didn't notice any increases until baby 2 had arrived. i love the shake of the head, i will ask dd if she is finished and she shakes her head and says 'uh uh' without coming off.

[Arcadia]

You will get colostrum before too long, so you should still be able to boost you lo's immune system.

Last winter was dd's first without feeding and it sucked! I feel for you...but then my dd was only 2.5 so yours might be older and not as vulnerable