Mom2Nat,
Wow! I like the photos... very well taken... Nat looks super duper cute in it!
Geee... love her cheeks!
Lyn & all other moms interested in this question,
I found the answer re: relactating. I wrote to ask an expert at breastfeeding... here's what was written:
Q: Am just wondering if it is possible for someone to stop breastfeeding for about 10months or more and still find milk leaking/dripping. This is happening to my friend and she's asking me why it is so. I can't answer her. In addition, her kid had the runs recently and since she now is a sahm, I suggested to her that maybe she'll like to breastfeed again. She sure sounded excited and when she expressed the milk to see its condition, it is creamy and but she says... tastes sour. She managed to express a few ml... but as it was sour she threw it away. Why is the milk sour?
A: It is perfectly normal to find some milk still being produced even after a woman has stopped breastfeeding. Certainly, the qty may not be as much as she used to get but it wouldn't be a problem to squeeze a bit out. Even grannies can re-lactate - tho they probly need more help lah.
The rule of thumb is: the earlier the relactation period to the period of weaning, the higher the chances of success in relactation.
Simply explained: it just means that the sooner one relactates after weaning, the more success one would have at this. So a woman who chooses to relactate, say 1 month after stopping breastfeeding, wd have a better chance of relactation being successful (in other words, ss almost being as good as it used to be) than, say a woman who has stopped lactating for many years or a woman who has never lactated before at all (eg adoptive parents).
The milk tastes sour/salty because of the higher salt content in involuted breast glandular tissue. It is still not 'bad' milk. Only with regular pumping/expression will the qty increase and the old sweet tasting stuff come back.
