Help a mama out and respond anonymously on our forum. How to dry up breast milk?
Theres a shot they can give you to dry it up. They did that w/ me when I had both of my kids.
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Cold cabbage leaves definitely work! My supply dried up a little over a week with using them
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Get in a hot shower and massage them for 5 minutes then when you get out put some ice cold peas on each one and let them get cold enough to be numb. The warm water and massage will tell your breasts to produce more but the cold compress will stop dit immediately therefore thoroughly confusing your body so it doesnt produce anything at all. It also gives you slight relief from all that built up pressure. After 4 days i was dry as hell man 
but i did the cold compress 4 times daily and then the shower and more cold compress aat night, i felt like i couldnt breathe the damn things grew so much 
i was sit in the shower and cry from the pain ooooff
Cold cabbage leaves in your bra. Mine dried up in less than a week!
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Sudafed. It’s what my OBGYN suggested and it worked like magic.
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Wondering the same because I’m almost due and do not plan on breastfeeding…
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I was told Benadryl and cabbage. It worked pretty well.
When I was looking for something to take for a cold, I saw people took sudafed to dru up… don’t know if it actually works though🤷♀️
Cold Cabbage firm against your boobs then change as they get to body temp
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I’ve heard pumping helps. Pump less every day to trick your body into thinking you need to produce less. But my milk never came in so I would recommend whatever everyone else is saying lol
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COLD Cabbage leaves, cold is key. Change then out as they warm up. I would get a big leaf cover my whole boob and then put on a sports bra to help dry it up.
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Y’all can have a problem that makes you lactate, unrelated to breastfeeding. Talk to your doctor. Google prolactinoma.
Cut out a cactus an pour out the juice from it and apply it on your breast for 2-3 days 3 times a day. It helps!
1.5 weeks. I did nothing, just stopped nursing, pumped maybe twice when engorgement was unbearable. I have though, heard cabbage leaves are a life saver.
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I took allergy medicine. I didnt intent on drying up yet but was suffering so bad from seasonal allergies. I literally dried up within 2 days 
I had milk for 4 years after I stopped breastfeeding my daughter it stopped when I got pregnant. Then I had it for 1 year after stopping my son. It only went away when I got my nipples pierced. I had tried everything even the shot from my doctor none of it worked. I still have very very little but it’s still there almost 2 years later
I used cold cabbage leaves and it took about a week to dry up.
With my first son, my milk didn’t come in for 4 days after I had him. (ER C-section). By the time it did come in, he was already on formula. My mom got a head of cabbage and I used it and a tight sports bra for about 3 days, then back to normal.
With my 2nd son, I was really engorged and actually had to go to the doctor and get medication. I only used the cabbage for 2 days, but also in the shower, I used to painfully squeezed them to the point of almost crying.
My daughter’s OB told her to put cabbage leaves in her bra to dry it up. It worked!
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I am child led breastfeeding my youngest but my oldest is 20 yrs older and my milk never completely dried up. I would even get a let down if I heard a crying baby. It will most likely take quite a while but you can always talk to OBGYN if it is bothersome.
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I was still producing 3-4 years after i stopped breastfeeding. And i hadn’t done anything to stimulate production in that time.
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I’ve heard Cold cabbage leaves. But a friend of mine told me to wear tight bras. Multiple even. So I wore a sports bra and then a regular bra and that did the trick after about a week. But my first baby I dried up within a month with no sign of why 
You can also use an ACE bandage to wrap around your chest. I did the leaves and had my mom help wrap me, lasted about 5 days or so
My first took 2years. My 2nd I got pregnant the same month I stopped nursing her so my dried up fast. 3rd I was nursing him I dried up (10months) because I got pregnant again
I was still leaking 3 years after but just in the shower
Cup of water in a disposable nappy freeze and stuff in bra and make sure it is firm and try not to touch breast the more stimulation the more it produces.nappy doesnt smell like cabbage but dries up within a couple of days both work well. As much as you can on the days while you are trying to dry up dont hold baby close to boobs.
If it’s been over a few months they will just jive you a pill to dry up
Ask your doctor if they can give you something to dry it up. My doctor gave me something after I lost my twins and after I had my youngest son in November.
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My daughter is 8 and i still produce milk not enough to where my breasts get full but if i squeeze milk will squirt. I have a prolactinoma
Still producing, haven’t breast fed in over a year
Havent nursed in 5 years and i can still get milk out.
Cabbage leaves in a tight fitting bra is what ive always been told
I used frozen cabbage to dry mine up.
My child is a year old I never breastfed and I still produce
When our babies cry it stimulates our breast milk ducts. I had same issues with my little ones
I dried up in like a week or two after I stopped breastfeeding feeding
Snug bra with cabbage leaves.
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I did cabbage leaves…worked great for me!
Cold cabbage and a tight sports bra!
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Cabbage 
Works like a charm.
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Sudafed for a week cold cabbage leafs to ease pain
Cabbage leaves. I keep leaves in the fridge
I used garbage in my bra. Was told to wear a sports bra
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It took two years for me.
Took a year and I stopped producing when I got pregnant
I believe my daughter got a shot to dry up her milk
Frozen cabbage leaves
It’s been almost a year and I still have some
I was still producing after a year of stopping ! It was terrible
But it slowly decreased. My son is 2.5 years old, and if I express I can still get a drop or two
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Epsom salts a tea spoon in a cup of tea
I still produced for about a year
Cabbage leaves in your bra
Cabbage leaves and a tight ass sports bra for a week straight. Was disgusting, but worked 
Cabbage leaves work amazing
Some women never stop producing😫 I thank God decided to stop breastfeeding and dried up within a week. But others never dry up. That’s how they had wet nurses back in the day. My exes aunt she still produced and she’s going into her 60s!
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I dried up naturally after a month
It took me over a year to stop leaking, and even then I could still squeeze out a few drops if I tried to, so I guess I never really dried up between my first baby and this pregnancy.
Don’t let hot water run on them, keep them pulled tight in a sports bra and frozen cabbage. These are all of the things my nurses told me when I got mastitis after my second baby and wanted them to dry up
Sudafed. Nasal congestion. Just had my son in April n this worked in a little more than a week. Tke as directed.
Benadryl 
three days bam done
Cold cabbage leaves in a tight sports bra and take a allergy med it’ll dry in a couple days
There is pills to dry you up
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I’m 7 months pp and still leaking.
I didn’t breastfeed after either one of my kids. I literally just took two ace bandages and compressed my chest for two weeks and it dried up really easy.
You can produce for the rest of your life around ovulation time even if you dry up so don’t like freak out if you do have some drops around that time
Ask your doctor for medication for that. 
Cabbage in your bra!!! X
I’m just here to jump on the cabbage leaf bandwagon…
Cabbage. All three pregnancies it worked
Stephanie Rockwell maybe some of these tips will help!
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Cabbage. 100%. My son was easily eating a gallon a day and i dried up so fast. It was a damn miracle.
Why not pump and donate?
I dried up pretty naturally bc my son slowly weaned, but honestly I still had milk when he was 4 years old, and even after implants. It didn’t dry up until I got pregnant again
I switched my birth control to help wean mine because it dried it up my milk. I was on the progesterone only pill and went back to yaz when I was ready to wean. I haven’t had any milk since I switched.
Idk. I just let mine do it naturally and I had milk for over a year after breast feeding.
2 years 9 months between my 2 children and had miscarriage in-between them and milk never properly dried up in-between all 3 pregnancys although it wasn’t leaking out. Antihistamines for few days are supposed to help, also try not to touch them too much as any stimulate will trigger milk production
Wash your breast with warm water it help a lot , I breast feed for 2yrs 9months and stop naturally. What I did is every time I shower I press my breast or massage it with warm water and it gone .
If you have the time, slowly weaning over 1-2 months is ideal. But if you need to dry up asap there are a few options. Cold cabbage leaves in your bra, eating peppermint, taking sudafed, and certain birth controls can aid in stopping milk production. I don’t recommend breast binding or wearing tight clothing because there’s an extremely high risk of developing serious complications like clogged ducts that can quickly progress into abscesses and sepsis.
Using cabbage leaves isnt the answer. Cabbage does nothing. Its bc youre using cold cabbage leaves. Use literally anything cold on your breast and it will stop milk flow. Its very simple and any obstitrician will tell you. Cold compress stops milk flow and hot compress increases milk flow.
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With my first son i didnt want to breastfeed so my nurse told me use ice packs on my breasts to stop the flow of milk. It worked. With my second son i wanted to breastfeed so i used a heating pad on my breasts to increase milk flow. very simple and in both cases worked exactly how it should have. Heat stimulates breast milk flow and cold stops it. Pretty simple. Dont worry about leaves and all that other silly horse shit lmao.
I just stopped 2 months ago, my little guy quit me cold turkey. Cold Cabbage leafs. Change every couple of hours. It’s the only thing that helped me.
Benadryl, cold cabbage leaves on breasts and wrap them or wear right sports bra!
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I drank black coffee 4 a week and that dried me up I found cabbage leaves didn’t work 4 me
I stopped nursing in March (I nursed for 3.5 years) and still leak
Girl…cabbage leaves sports bra ace bandage wear for 3 days take benadryl dries everyone I tell up!
Take antihistamines. My pediatrician recommended this when I was ready to stop and it worked great.
I still produced a little like a year after I stopped 
Two years since I lost my baby and I still produce small amounts of milk… anyway to make it go away fully or am I just part cow now aha
They can prescribe you something to dry it up or they did me 29 years ago. If all else fails
I’m going on almost 3 years and I still leak occasionally. It gets better for sure it just takes time. We technically are postpartum for a year at least, so give yourself some time. I had to wear breast pads for my milk last year and now it’s barely there.
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My LG was BF until 12 weeks. She is 2 in 2 weeks & I still produce a little.
I put cabbage leaves on my boobs and it stopped
I’m 2 years postpartum and stopped breastfeeding after 3 months. I still have milk come out if I squeeze my nipples
Benadryl. Twice a day for 5 days
I used Campor Oil and hot shower.
Save it for your baby !
I got told to put cabbage leafs down my bra on a night as it draws the milk out! I didn’t believe it a first but it worked for me x
Zytrec will help dry you up.