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Our baby is a bit over three weeks old - and I still have too much milk!! It makes it so hard for her to relax and breastfeed.
Thankfully, she is doing great - gaining, etc... but I know it would help with the crying, and not to mention, complete milk wet mess - if the milk came out more slowly. She even gags a bit at times and is done very quickly because it simply comes out soooo fast.
Your supply should start regulating at about 6 weeks. Hang in there.
Try what christy recommended with pumping or hand expressing but just enough for let down and nurse right away. It is usually the let down that causes the choking and milk mess. If you pump too much it just signals your body to make more which will not help any.
If you are going to give bottles and they have a good latch try giving the expressed milk in a bottle. That will help keep your supply from increasing because of the pumping. They will tell you not to introduce the bottle until they are around 4 weeks because it can interfere with latch. But if they have a good latch and no other problems than you can probably introduce and occasional bottle.
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i had the same problem when ds was little. I either did what everyone else suggested or i would latch the baby on and right before i my milk let down (i had really painful let down the first 6 months o i KNEW when it was coming) i'd take the baby off and put a towl up to my nipple.I'd hold it there untill the milk stopped SHOOTING out of my nipple and relatched the baby. I also had a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance because of overactive let down so i would nurse baby on the same side for 3 or 4 nursings at a time than i would switch to the other one and nurse him on that side for 3 or 4 nursings in a row. it helped with the overactive let down and Lucien got more fatty hindmilk making him much less cranky
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What they said. I have overactive letdown and oversupply syndrome. After 6 weeks, you can work to decrease your supply but until then, it is not a good idea. Your body needs those six weeks to figure out how much you need, when, etc. If you decrease it too much, you might struggle from then on to keep your supply.
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I had some over active let down problems in the beginning. I ended up keeping a prefold next to me and when i'd feel the let down, i'd take baby off and catch w/ dipe. then put her back on. Sometimes she got a little mad about waiting but it helped her to not gag.
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LLL says to nurse all feedings on 1 side for 3 hrs and then go to the other side for 3 hrs to help with balancing. It is something you and your little one will work out. Both my kids clicked horribly to deal with the letdown. Marin would spit me out and suck me in to deal with it. She still is a crummy nurser- on and off until Mommy says enough- and rarely settles down to nurse although she is getting better (she actually has nursed to sleep 5 or 6 times in a row!!! which is huge because she NEVER nursed to sleep and she is now 4.5 mo old!).
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Hey!! Liquid gold!!! the Mother's Milk Bank accepts a hundred ounces at a time- or ten ounces, and then send the rest. Google the address- there are 11 across the country. One is here in Austin.
It's giving the gift of the best start to another baby. If your body blesses you like that!!!!!!!! Why not???
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You can also help her by nursing her in sidelying or even with her laying on your tummy while you lay on your back so that the excess milk runs out of her mouth and if she is lying on your tummy the milk even has to flow upstream to reach her vs, if she is on her back or side it is running down her throat.
Karen
thank you so much for all the help!
I have already started to let the milk from the let down "squirt" into a cloth diaper - that is helping some.....
I am going to start the three hours per side too - thanks !!!!
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I like Ari's suggestion
Anyway, mama, if you truly think you are over abundant, sage and parsley have a way of slowing the milk process down.
I woudl eat fresh plant if possible or make a tea our of the dried leaves if that is all you can get a hold of.
But since babe is so small, time may heal the problem too. HAng in there.
My bed has been dryer these days now that Olivia has a more predictable feeding schedule(you know for a on demand breastfed babe lol)
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and Sam, 8 
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