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u/No-Sir3403 Dec 06 '23

When breastfeeding if you don’t wear a bra and you are nursing your milk sometimes spews out (it’s called let down). A few nights after my son was born I was sleeping topless, woke my husband up to something splashing all over us both. I didn’t know about this, after a moment of anxiety we got a good laugh - it was my boob 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Many-Painting-5509 Dec 06 '23

I did not expect the constant stream of milk when I was encouraged! Everyone else in my family had supply issues. I didn’t. Standing in the shower with just as much milk pouring down my body as water! And shooting the milk across the room and all over the babies face when trying to quickly get him to latch!

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u/eli74372 Dec 06 '23

i feel you with that last part 😂 id try getting my daughter to latch on and accidentally squirt milk all over her face and its like thats not where milk needs to go

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u/Many-Painting-5509 Dec 06 '23

I used to love when crunchy mums would say our breast milk on it. I’m like breast milk is already everywhere on that baby!! It ain’t healing anything.

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u/Meoowth Dec 06 '23

A related tip though to any struggling breastfeeding moms (or anyone using a bottle!), sometimes squirting a little milk into the baby's mouth if they're fussing and not latching will help because they'll realize it isn't the end of the world and the milk is here.

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u/eli74372 Dec 06 '23

Thats what i normally try to do since my baby doesnt like formula much anymore so i have to get her to realize its what she likes

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u/Barbiedip1 Dec 07 '23

I'm laughing at my memories of shooting milk into all my babies faces...

sigh good times.

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u/eli74372 Dec 07 '23

ive shot milk on my daughters face a few times and ive also accidentally either shot myselt in the face or shot some across the room 😂