How to dry up breast milk?

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 leavesā€¦worked great for me!

Cold cabbage and a tight sports bra!

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Cabbage :100: 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

Itā€™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 :woman_shrugging:t3:

Cabbage leaves work amazing

Some women never stop producingšŸ˜« I thank God decided to stop breastfeeding and dried up within a week. But others never dry up. Thatā€™s how they had wet nurses back in the day. My exes aunt she still produced and sheā€™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.

Donā€™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 :ok_hand:t2: three days bam done

Cold cabbage leaves in a tight sports bra and take a allergy med itā€™ll dry in a couple days

There is pills to dry you up

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Iā€™m 7 months pp and still leaking.

I didnā€™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 donā€™t like freak out if you do have some drops around that time

Ask your doctor for medication for that. :woman_facepalming:t2:

Cabbage in your bra!!! X

Iā€™m just here to jump on the cabbage leaf bandwagonā€¦

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?

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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 didnā€™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 havenā€™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 wasnā€™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 donā€™t recommend breast binding or wearing tight clothing because thereā€™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. Itā€™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 didnā€™t work 4 me

I stopped nursing in March (I nursed for 3.5 years) and still leak

Girlā€¦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 :joy::flushed:

Two years since I lost my baby and I still produce small amounts of milkā€¦ 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

Iā€™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 itā€™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

Iā€™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 didnā€™t believe it a first but it worked for me x

Zytrec will help dry you up.