Friday, December 08, 2006

This just in....RELACTATION!

Okay, so after blogging about my inability to move on and try to get over my sadness and guilt about having to stop breastfeeding, I decided to ask...just what if there was some magic pill or magic way of being able to BF again. As it turns out, THERE IS!! It's called relactation, and after much initial web research (all I've had time to do since 5:00 yesterday evening), I've decided I'm going to try it. The stories out there on this are amazing, with some women even being able to BF adopted babies and toddlers, despite the fact that they were never pregnant themselves - WOW! I continue to be amazed by what the female body can do. I understand that this will require LOTS of committment, time, and patience, but I'm willing to do anything to share that experience again with my daughter. I've already put her back to the breast several times, and we're off to get a super-sized hospital-grade pump and supplemental nursing system today. I go to the Dr.'s office on Tuesday to talk about getting a Rx for Reglan, which is used to stimulate milk production. With luck, according to most of the information I've read so far, I should be able to regain full milk prodcution in about 4 weeks. Keep my relactation efforts in your prayers (if you pray), meditations, and/or thoughts...Or, just wish us luck!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're hard core, lady. Good luck!!

Anonymous said...

Wow--I look forward to hearing about how the whole process goes. I hope it works out for you.

M said...

I'm impressed. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it works!

Anonymous said...

I'll be praying for you and the baby. Have you considered using domperidone instead of Reglan? I had lots of troubles nursing my older son (I blogged about it here:
http://mamaintranslation.blogspot.com/2006/05/our-breastfeeding-odyssey-or.html
but I have yet to finish the story) and the SNS was what helped us. I never had such sore nipples as what you have been describing on your blog. I hope with all my heart that you can do it.

Anonymous said...

I'm breaking the URL in two now to see if it works:
http://mamaintranslation.blogspot.com/
2006/05/our-breastfeeding-odyssey-or.html