breast feeding and leakage?

yes, you will still leak for a little while. but the body is an amazing thing, and adjusts quickly. breastfeeding is based on supply and demand. no demand, no supply. bind your breasts tight and wear cabbage leaves directly on them for a few days. your dr can also prescribe something to help dry up your milk quickly. you will feel engorged, no doubt, but usually only for a couple days.

as far as the breastfeeding police: you will get so much unwanted and uneeded advice; take what you can use, ignore the rest. fellow moms can be the biggest judgemental B*tches in the world. ignore them. and good luck and congrats! i am also due in oct.!

You will be engorged and possibly leak for the first couple of weeks, until the milk dries up. How much is impossible to say.

And I'm not the BFing police, but if you have ANY interest at all in BFing, I would encourage you to double check the safety of your meds. The number of routine meds that will get into the milk and actually harm the baby is small enough to be counted on one hand. Unless you are getting cancer chemotherapy, it is 99% certain that you can BF on the meds you are taking, or the doctor can switch you from a potentially hazardous one to a safer one.

(BFing IS a choice, and it's a choice that should be made with full information about the risks and benefits of your decision.)

Here are a couple of links to check out.

http://neonatal.ama.ttuhsc.edu/cgi-bin/discus/disc...

http://www.kellymom.com/health/meds/aap-approved-m...

Breastfeeding police, lol.

Taking lots of water and having the baby breastfeed are ways to produce milk. Therefore, reducing water intake and baby not eating will not stimulate your breasts. Talk to your gyno, or the pediatrician, I believe there are some injections to stop milk production at all. You don't want your milk to stay in you, if you are certain you will never breastfeed this baby, better look for an alternative so you don't end up pumping yur milk and throwing it out.

haha! breast feeding police...

anyway, to answer your question, yes, you will still lactate, but not as long as if you were breast feeding. you will probably want the pads, but as i said, only for a little while. the best part is when someone else's kid cries and you start leaking :)