When will my milk settle and stop making my 7wk old choke?

[Mama2Mia]

My DD2 is almost 7 weeks old and i still have way too much milk (not expressing just demand feeding).

Every time i go to feed her and i have a milk let down she can't cope and chokes on it. When i pull her away the milk shoots out like a jet stream and there's about 6 different streams going!

Its impossible for me to feed in public because it gets incredibly messy and cumbersome.

Anyone know when this will stop happening?? I remember having simliar issues with DD1 and can't remember when it got better......

[SPC]

I have a pretty powerful letdown and Esme has just become able to cope with it in the last month, so about 16 weeks! I feed lying down quite a bit, which seems to help and over the summer has been easier in parks etc than sitting up. Esme also makes a huge fuss of latching on so I've found out where all the good parenting rooms are and now try to avoid feeding her on the tram if I can because it's just a bit farcical.

[Mama2Mia]

wow 16 wks!!! Man its such a task feeding her when i'm a little full in the breast.....i go through boxes and boxes of tissues :no:

i thought the milk supply was meant to settle a lot sooner than 4mths!

[SPC]

With me it's my let down - it's just really forceful. Have you tried breast shells? I think they sell ones that are supposed to prevent leaking of the other boob when the baby is latched on. I get really fed up with the laundry!

[Mama2Mia]

actually mines the same...the let down is the prob....they're like jet streams of breast milk!

[Hollywood]

When mine did that in the beginning I had to pull DS off when let down started, and using a towel I caught a little bit of the 'jet streams' until it was slow enough for DS to cope.

Also, make sure you aren't changing sides too quickly, that can sometimes stimulate your breasts into producing more milk (that's what happened with me).

Block feeding can sometimes help, where you feed on demand as usual, but for blocks of 2 or 3 hours you don't change sides. I had to do that because I got an imbalance of fore milk and hind milk which caused lactose overload (the most obvious sign was DS feeding more often and he had green frothy poos).

[Pax]

at about 2 months my baby could swallow fast enough to keep up with it, occassionally she has a choke though.

express a bit prior to putting her on.. or when you have a let down, take her off and let it flow into a cotton nappy. I purchased a packet of those nappies just for this purpose.