HI Ixwong,Cat-Tail,
Yes, the breast will shrink but go back to pre-preg size..the reason why people think that breast become smaller is because they forgotten how their breasts look like before pregnancy hehe cause during pregnancy, breast increase 1 cup. then when milk supply come in, breast size increase somemore..so after taking the pill, breast suddenly become smaller (no more milk), they are shocked that the diff is so great, and somemore there is a lot of 'wrinkly' skin, so the breast looks like a shrivelled up prune haha but the size is actually the same la, for me at least, and the wrinkly skin (cause skin stretched to accommodate when they grew mah) recovers in a few days/weeks. But one thing though, breasts definitely sag after breastfeeding,cause cannot wear underwire and breasts so heavy..now i can rival an african tribal woman, sigh..rubbing the clarins bust cream everyday now...
Hi Triniti,
First 2 days i took the medicine (2 tablets break into half, one day take 2 halves). then engorgement for i think 4 or 5 days (including the first 2 days) but the engorgement gets progressively less as the days pass lah..by the end of the week, milk supply completely stop. zero, zilch, nada, empty. if you wean off through cold cabbage or less pumping or cold turkey etc, you will still have some milk ie. few drops, wont be completely empty at least forthe next few weeks..
i only breastfed for 4.5 weeks..the last two weeks was very bad, i had to express every 2 hours if not will have engorgemet. Baby doesn't drink every 2 hours, and baby doesn't empty breasts everytime she feeds, so most of the time was spent pumping and washing and sterlizing and before you know it, its time for the next pumping cycle again...i had to wake up twice in the night just to pump..and when i had engorgement/fever, waking up in the middle of the night to pump while shivering/feverish is a nightmare!! i had breast infection (mastitis) twice because i didn't express fast enough (both times was because i slept through the night, didn't express for 6/7 hours because was sick) then kenna breast infection. So i was on antibiotics twice during confinement month. By the 2nd week of confinement, i was pumping up to 225-250ml each session.
Hi Wendyg,
Ya my gynae also said very wasted. the reason why i stopped breastfeeding is because i suffer from very bad migraine (with aura, seeing bright spots, nausea, vomitting etc). During pregnancy, i was so happy! nine months no migraine at all..but once i delivered, within the first week, i kenna migraine twice liao cause not enough sleep. Then subsequently over the next few weeks of confinement, with lack of sleep due to expressing, then plus fever, engorgement, i was practically like a zombie having migraine. and couldn't even rest cause have to express milk every 2 hours!! lucky that time got confinement lady. But once she went back, that's when i threw in the towel..i couldn't look after the baby, express milk, and be sick at the same time with migraine, fever, engorgement what not..cause when ihave migraine, i can'tsee properly for at least an hour or so (see bright spots and like got blind spot like that)..i just couldn't cope..i also think wasted, but i really had no choice..i cried myself silly when i was forced to make this decision because i felt i was letting my baby down
but nowadays he's quite gd at turning his head left-right-left, so the pillow must put horizontal liao...
