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Just a curious question.

 

My youngest child is 4. I breastfed him until around 14 months. I still have milk, leakage and soreness pretty often. In fact, from breastfeeding my first child 12 years ago, the milk has never fully gone away.

 

Doctors seem pretty unconcerned. I've had a mammogram and breast ultrasounds within the past couple of years so I don't suspect anything serious (my sister had breast cancer at age 29). I'm 33 and have borderline pcos according to a fertility specialist a decade ago.

 

The constant tenderness and random leaking is getting on my nerves!

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Just a curious question.

 

My youngest child is 4. I breastfed him until around 14 months. I still have milk, leakage and soreness pretty often. In fact, from breastfeeding my first child 12 years ago, the milk has never fully gone away.

 

Doctors seem pretty unconcerned. I've had a mammogram and breast ultrasounds within the past couple of years so I don't suspect anything serious (my sister had breast cancer at age 29). I'm 33 and have borderline pcos according to a fertility specialist a decade ago.

 

The constant tenderness and random leaking is getting on my nerves!

Milk production often occurs with Pcos

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Two. Years. Two years!

 

Nursed until age 2, and had some visible milk secretions until the kid's 4th birthday.

 

I have no idea if that's common. My mother, who nursed many children, was not surprised. I think I'm fairly normal, hormonally.

Thanks for your reply! Did it just randomly stop?

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Well you would be very useful in an inawoods apocalypse situation in which someone else bore a child, then died in childbirth, and there were no other nursing mothers.

 

So there's that. :)

Lol! I have often thought that I could have made a killing in the time of wet nursing...

In an apocalypse I'll be rocking in the corner or taking my cyanide pill, no thanks.

 

Honestly, it's getting annoying and I'm sick of being sore!

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I've always weaned before falling pregnant again, the quickest was about 9 months from weaning until pregnancy. I don't tend to fall pregnant easily - only one of my children was conceived without intervention.

Pregnancy had no effect, except to re-increase the volume!

 

Anyway, just curious really! Thanks for the replies guys!

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I didn't routinely have milk after a few months, but the hungry cry of a baby caused a let down response for years.

Yes, ugh! Not enough to leak but I could feel that sensation like my body was really trying to produce milk for that hungry infant.

 

 

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I didn't routinely have milk after a few months, but the hungry cry of a baby caused a let down response for years.

Only had real milk for 4-5 months after weaning.

 

But my "baby" is 6 and to this day when I hear/smell a newborn I still feel a let down! Bodies are weird.

 

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I breastfed two boys for almost 7 years, between the two of them. (No real break between, either, as I weaned the Middle Boy when I was almost due with Youngest Boy, who obviously took over immediately.)

 

I haven't breastfed a child in going on 2 years now, and am still lactating. Fun times :P

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