https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 16:53:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839825 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:38:05 +0000 ladyfingers 839825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Glad your milk came in! Definitely try pumping/expressing out a bit, it was really hard for LO to latch when I was engorged. Thankfully that phase only lasted a couple of days, but it was a hard couple of days for us! LO also started to develop a shallow latch after my milk came in because the letdown was a little much for him. His latch has gotten slightly deeper over time, but not really much -- we both just kind of adapted to his style. He's got a high palate so that's part of the problem, too.</p> <p>I like this technique for getting a deeper latch:<br /> <a href="http://www.pumpstation.com/pumpstation/dept.asp?dept_id=3228" rel="nofollow">http://www.pumpstation.com/pumpstation/dept.asp?dept_id=3228</a></p> <p>There's also a technique where you pull the nipple back with your thumb then pop it in her mouth and pull back out, which helps her lip flange out too. I originally found it online but can't find it... hopefully this makes sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839420 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:44:35 +0000 pl0508 839420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SleepyMonkey: I agree with football hold for newborn. At 4.5 mo we never use it anymore but it was our go to in the first weeks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839349 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:30:07 +0000 Revel 839349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the quick responses! I'm going to try some other positions today and see if that helps, and I do have lactation support easily accessible to me and will seek that out asap if things don't improve. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839331 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:26:00 +0000 SleepyMonkey 839331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@revel: hooray for milk! i found that switching positions helped her latch in the beginning. she was able to latch much more easily in the football hold, than if i was doing a cradle hold. i think it was easier for her to get more in her mouth. sometimes she'd slobber on it and it would be too slippery for her to get a latch, so i'd wipe it off with a cloth before trying again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839306 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:17:09 +0000 regberadaisy 839306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Revel: yay, congratulations! Must be a huge weight off your shoulders. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839304 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:15:55 +0000 heartonastring 839304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Revel: I found this helpful: <a href="http://www.pumpstation.com/pumpstation/dept.asp?dept_id=3228" rel="nofollow">http://www.pumpstation.com/pumpstation/dept.asp?dept_id=3228</a>. </p> <p>If you're engorged it will be difficult for her to latch. You can relieve the engorgement by hand expressing or pumping a little. I also found warm compresses to be helpful on the first couple days after my milk came in.</p> <p>If you are finding the latch at all difficult, see an LC ASAP. Don't do what I did and try to get away with a painful latch...DD is six weeks now and it's only in the last few days that I've been able to nurse without any pain thanks to the injuries I sustained in weeks one and two due to a not great latch and some poor positioning (changing your position by an inch or two can make a world of difference). My LC saved my nursing relationship..she's pretty much my hero! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839289 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:10:09 +0000 mrs. wagon 839289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Revel: yay, so glad your milk came in!! My friend's milk didn't come in til day 10 and she was going nuts. She was really stressed out until her OB told her she had a patient whose milk came in on day 21. So sometimes it just takes a while ;) my friend went on to have a great milk supply and breastfed for quite a while. </p> <p>With her latch, don't hesitate to stick your pinky in her mouth (slip it in right next to her nipple) to break the latch and have her retry. Tickle the side of her mouth to get her to open wide, then try and get the nipple as deeply into her mouth as possible. It's a learning curve for both of you! :) Good luck!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-839285 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:08:00 +0000 Revel 839285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for all the encouragement ladies, we have milk! I think she was getting it late Wednesday because I noticed a change in her nursing - more gulps - and she slept a 4 hour stretch at night!</p> <p>Thursday and today so far she seems a little more satisfied and has been making the right amount of diapers, so hopefully we're on track.</p> <p>On another topic, her latch seems to have gotten shallower since the change in size of the boob, and I'm having trouble fixing it, any tips? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834845 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:50:57 +0000 purrpletulips 834845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>While exhausting, keep nursing as much as LO wants. My milk didn't come in until day 5 with DD and day 9 with DS. Both were inductions but otherwise no complication vaginal deliveries. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834809 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:39:27 +0000 babynumber1 834809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: I didn't know either. I was never engorged or had any leaking. It wasn't until later that I could tell if my breast was full. </p> <p>Mine came in day 5/6ish. We did supplement with formula bc baby was hungry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834801 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:37:04 +0000 beesknees 834801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine was like day or 5 too, perhaps even day 6? I can't remember, but I know that I didn't sense it happening (and had thought it already did) But then I had these giant hard boobs out of nowhere! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834766 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:26:49 +0000 Adira 834766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This probably won't be helpful, but I didn't even NOTICE when mine came in! People kept asking me if it was in yet and I was like "Um... I guess?" I had no idea how to tell! They say that you'll know because you'll be super engorged, but that NEVER happened to me because Xander was just nursing constantly! I think around day 5, I had an LC helping me with Xander's latch and she showed me how to bring the milk down (if there was any) to get things started, and I squirted at her, so that's when I knew it was in, but I had no idea beforehand! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834756 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:23:47 +0000 heffalump 834756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That happened to me too..... although LO wasn't fine. She was starving and crying all the time, so we had to supplement. Glad your LO is satisfied with what you've got! Hopefully it will come in soon :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834746 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:19:52 +0000 sarac 834746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You're doing great, and this is totally normal! Mine came in day 4. I think the suggestion to talk to an LC on day 5 is really good - if you're not fully established by day 5, a little extra push might be great. Or, if you can't get to one that day, maybe just start pumping after each nursing session.</p> <p>But mostly, let your baby be your guide. If they're nursing, happy, wetting enough diapers, you're good. Good. Perfect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834713 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:07:44 +0000 edelweiss 834713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my milk ducts were starting to congest around day 5, but LO's suck was not strong enough to get it to flow. so after freaking out big time, i met with a lactation consultant and started pumping after every nursing session. we also supplemented with a bottle (for a week we supplemented with formula, then i had enough pumped milk to supplement with that).</p> <p>ETA: pumping saved me--otherwise i don't know if my supply would have established itself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834700 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:03:48 +0000 regberadaisy 834700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think mine started to come in day 5? You're already winning that colostrum is enough for your baby! It wasn't for my LO. So +1 for you! Great job! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834692 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:00:28 +0000 mrsjyw 834692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>mine came in day 5! hang in there!! congrats!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834641 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:32:42 +0000 pl0508 834641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine came in on day 5! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834567 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:07:32 +0000 skibobrown 834567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Keep an eye on diapers, keep nursing, and hang in there! </p> <p>Maybe not what you want to hear, but mine never came in despite doing all of the right things. I was devastated. I know that supplementing can seem like the end of the world if you planned on breastfeeding, but if you turn out to need it to keep your baby healthy then it's totally ok., and you shouldn't feel guilty about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834565 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:00:19 +0000 anniegurumi 834565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine took 5 days! Hang in there and don't give up, it'll suddenly come in, I promise. *HUGS* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834562 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:53:51 +0000 googly-eyes 834562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is there wet/poopy diapers? I think that's the main thing to go by when you first get home. My milk took a long time to come in too. It came in on the fourth day (but of course by then we had already given 1oz formula because lo went all of day 3 with only one wet diaper and no poopy in over 24 hours. Oops.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834280 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:53:46 +0000 runsyellowlites 834280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You're doing GREAT!!! I would think that as long as your lo is still within the weight loss limits &amp; is having enough wet/dirty diapers there isn't any reason to supplement. Just keep doing lots of skin to skin &amp; nursing on demand! It'll come!! ;)</p> <p>Do you have an LC in your area you could meet with? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834276 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:52:22 +0000 junebugmama 834276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around day 5 is when there should be some concern. Just keep nursing and checking weight gain. If it goes beyond 7 days, you may want to see an LC or start pumping in order to bring your supply on. How do you know your milk isn't in? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834274 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:51:34 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 834274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Revel: I got my milk the midnight/morning of the 5th day! Basically, I had to give my son some formula the 4th night because I was desperate (not telling you to do that but, I did) and then I went to sleep. I woke maybe 5h later at 4am and I was ENGORGED!<br /> I did do nipple stimulation and pumping that day though. I think it was the pumping helped stimulate milk production. The pumping got some colostrum out too. I fed it to LO but it def wasn't enough to help the hunger issue. I think I gave him maybe 2.5oz that night because the kid was screaming and hadn't eaten anything in 4 days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834261 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:44:21 +0000 sarahbee 834261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine took 6 day after an uneventful vaginal delivery. LO was a late term preemie so Dr had me supplement with formula and weigh LO daily - luckily switching to EBF once I had milk went very smoothly. In the meantime, supplementing kept me from completely freaking out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834227 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:30:29 +0000 keiki_mama 834227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just keep at it mama! My colostrum didn't come in until day 4 and my milk didn't come in until day 5. You're doing great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834137 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:52:45 +0000 autumnlove 834137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hang in there, it will come in! It took 9 days with my 1st and 6 days with my 2nd LO! Nurse around the clock and maybe you can use a SNS if you decide to supplement with formula.</p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834136 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:52:07 +0000 Mrs. Pen 834136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think you're still within the normal range (up to 7 days I think). Just keep nursing consistently! They have such small stomachs at this point that the colostrom you have is enough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834132 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:50:41 +0000 MsLipGloss 834132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine didn't come in for 5 days . . . but it did come in! No worries mama - sounds like you're both doing fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/4-days-milk-not-in-yet#post-834117 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:45:22 +0000 oliviaoblivia 834117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lots of nursing and lots of skin to skin. It will come!</p> <p>Congrats btw! </p>