Guppy051708
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Ive had a super low milk supply since giving birth. Been meeting with a lactation consultant 1-3x per week. After trying EVERYTHING (and i mean everything from pumping, to herbal remedies, to eating certain foods, to eliminating certain foods, using an SNS-everything) and nothing would work for increasing it (im only making 1/4th of what i should be ! With that said and after 4 weeks of seeing NO increase, the LC suggested i get my prolactin levels checked. So i did and it turns out my number level of prolactin (27.5) is that of a NON lactating woman and that of a man 
. Normal for a man or non nursing female is 0-30. A nursing mother should be making at least 100. Anyways, point is my prolactin level has been the isse the entire time. They are going to put me on a drug called domperidone. I was just wondering what your results with this drug was? Did your milk supply remain the same or increase? If it increased- by approximately how much? I just want to know there is light at the end of the tunnel as i intend on BFing for at least a year. And this nursing, pumping, supplementing thing is a lot of work!
. Normal for a man or non nursing female is 0-30. A nursing mother should be making at least 100. Anyways, point is my prolactin level has been the isse the entire time. They are going to put me on a drug called domperidone. I was just wondering what your results with this drug was? Did your milk supply remain the same or increase? If it increased- by approximately how much? I just want to know there is light at the end of the tunnel as i intend on BFing for at least a year. And this nursing, pumping, supplementing thing is a lot of work!
Did your weight come off when you stopped? Great news it worked so well for you too x
i was already overweight to begin with, i really cant afford to gain more weight. Do you think all 20 lbs of weight was completely from Domperidone or do you think something else could have contributed.
In fact, yesterday i got less than i ever had 
Though my breasts felt fuller and harder less was coming out. I spoke to someone who theorized that while it was working for me it was messing with my milk ejection reflex. 
I sort of feel like I should have given it more of a chance (only took for 3 days), but what we are doing works, more or less, and something like mastitis from incomplete draining would push me over the edge into stopping altogether so...
I always still fill like my breasts are full even after increasing the time with the pump. The *offical* output is just as low (if not lower) than before, however, if attempt hand expression i still have a bunch more coming out (idk how much bc it hurts my hands to express that way so i dont think i get it all). Anyways, im just wondering how much it is. But im still upset that i haven't seen that *offical* increase. 
because all day today i have been able to get squiriting milk when i squeeze them together! 
now, i dont believe im making enough, but i def. think there is an increase! i have never been able to do that before! Guess its just taking longer for my body to adjust. Hopefully it keeps up!
I can never pump much out but I also knew the domperidone had worked for me because I could squeeze it out when before I couldnt! Its amazing, Alex almost chokes sometimes becasue he's used to sucking and sucking and nothing coming whereas now he almost drowns in it on a good feed! The scary thing is I missed a dose the day before last and the effect was instant, I was back to flaccid empty breasts and a frustrated baby! 48hrs later I'm back on track. I just wish the doc would prescribe it for me because its getting expensive. Its worth it though, 3 weeks ago when things were at their worst my son had lost weight, but i got him weighed the other day and he's gained 12 oz!!! 
