I just saw this blog http://www.bestforbabes.org/booby-traps-series-obstetrical-practices-are-making-late-milk-coming-in-the-new-normal
And I am curious--did your milk come in within 72 hours (3 days)? Late?
How late?
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I had pretty much every intervention on the list and my milk came in within a week--but definitely was not in when I left the hospital (more than 72 hours).
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My milk didn't come in until day 5. I had three of the four "risk factors" the article listed.
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day 5/6... I had IV fluids and pain meds.
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I had 3 out of 4 of the risk factors and my milk came in within the 72 hours in the hospital. I was super duper engorged...but baby would not latch!
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I was induced with cervadil and pitocin, was on magnesium, had IV fluids and IV pain meds (I had terrible abdominal pain from hellp syndrome even before my induction) and an epidural - and my milk came in in 48 hours
I'm so glad it was one thing we didn't have to worry about!
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I had no intervention & I think it took ~2.5 days for mine to come in with P. I also had TONS of colostrum (I could squirt it in P's mouth even when she wouldn't latch) so I wasn't concerned about it even if it had taken longer.
My milk came in almost 7 days after G was born & I had every intervention listed.
ETA: There should be one more vote for NO b/c I only voted for my experience with G, not P too.
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I had cervidil & pitocin induction, i also had a csection. Milk came in on day 3
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I had a cervidil and pitocin induction with IV fluids. My milk came in on the 4th day (she was born late monday night, and my milk came in late on Thursday). But, I was told by my midwife and LC that it is normal for it to take up to 5 days, so I wasn't worried. I knew she was getting colostrum and that her little bit of weight loss was normal.
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Mine came in about 24 hrs after birth, and I had epidurals and IV fluids.
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Mine came in between 48-72 hours after, I had pain meds & IV fluids.
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I'm another day 5 here. We had a rough day 3, but a visit to the peds office helped. We started supplementing on day 3 with the blessing of the peds office. After the initial stress subsided, my milk came in.
I had an epidural and IV with a 14 hour labor. The article is interesting because they almost make it seem like having any one of the four is bad. I had to have IV antibiotics because of GBS. Without those antibiotics, my labor might not have been a successful, almost routine/textbook vaginal birth. LO could have also been at a health risk if the GBS transferred to him. If it made me getting my milk in slower, to me, it just means that it look awhile longer to get into a breastfeeding rhythm.
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Day 9 for my first after a cesarean with a failed spinal block and 30 something hours of labor. Oh yeah, I had a cervidil and pitocin induction with IV fluids.
Day 6 for my second after a cesarean with a uterine hemorrhage after delivering. I had IV fluids and painkillers before the surgery.
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Mine came in 48 hours after birth.
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I had two of the four interventions (IV fluids and pain meds) and my milk was in within 36 hours.
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I had an epidural and pain meds but my milk came in within 24 hours of leaving the hospital so within 72 hours of birth.
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I had every last one of those interventions, and it came in 'late' - on day four of life. My mother had an unmedicated birth, and her milk was exactly the same. I made plenty of colostrum before that - as do most women. This fear mongering about milk coming in 'late' or 'not late' is really sad - 2-5 days is the norm, with 5 days being just as normal as 2. It really perpetuates the notion that if your milk isn't in by the time you leave the hospital, it's 'late', and something is wrong, and you need to do something else. Very frequently, that just isn't the case.
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Mine came in on day 3 after a cesarean. She was back up to her birth weight when we left the hospital on day 4.
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I had all 4 interventions on there and my milk was in before we left the hospital. (I had him Wednesday night and we left Saturday afternoon)
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@highwire: Same. I had 3 of the 4 risk factors, and my milk came in on Day 5. Longest 5 days of my life!
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I had a whole pile of interventions during the final stages of my labor (but no C-section). My milk essentially never came in. We worked with a lactation consultant, but nothing worked. We never received any real answers as to what went wrong, but I don't necessarily blame the interventions.
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Mine came in maybe 2-1/2 days after birth, but I had lots of colostrum before that. I did have an epidural/fluids/and a tiny bit of pitocin but didn't receive anything till I was 8 cm and had been in labor over 24 hours at that point so maybe late the interventions didnt make a significant impact on milk. The only thing Ive noticed from talking to friends is all of them who had a c section had their milk come in after 72 hours.
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My came in on the 4th day and I had IVS and an Epi.
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I was induced and had a c-section. Milk came in on day 5. The lcs all said it was normal and I never supplemented.
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@skibobrown: I had a friend who found out after weeks of getting more and more "second opinions" that part of her placenta was still in her body and it was preventing her milk from coming in. Maybe something like that happened??
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I had pitocin, iv meds, and an epidural and my milk came in about 60 hours after birth.
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Mine came in about 75 hrs after I gave birth and I'd had a epidural and IV fluids. I never thought of my milk coming in late, but I guess it just missed the cut off for being 'on time'! Regardless, we never had to supplement so it wasn't an issue.
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I had her Friday at noon and it came in overnight on Tuesday. So not too much longer than 72 hours. I was induced, had an epi, and IV fluids. But it had zero to do with LO's hypertension, which was ultimately the biggest factor in us not BFing. No big
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I had a long, augmented labour (27 hours), a ventouse delivery, an epidural and lots of Iv fluids and my milk took about five days to come in.
Miss A was born on Tuesday afternoon, I had heaps of colustrum on the Saturday, my milk transitioned on the Sunday and by Monday my milk had arrived. I didn't supplement at all
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@Navy_Mommy: No, it was almost definitely not that. It's still unexplained. Maybe my body just doesn't make enough milk -- that is rare, but certainly possible. There are some other possibilities as well, but we never found any definitive answers.
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my milk came in within 72 hours and I had all 4 of the "risk factors"
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Natural birth, Iv post birth delivered fri at 2am milk came in mon afternoon
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3 out of the 4 factors and it took 5 days.
I'm so glad it was one thing we didn't have to worry about!
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