Janet:

Along the lines of answering a question you haven't asked (and will all
sincerest hope, will never need to ask), one way that one might lose milk
during pregnancy is subsequent to losing the pregnancy.  My son Patrick
was 2 3/4 yrs. when I got pregnant last winter and was still nursing 2-3
times a day.  My milk started to reduce pretty dramatically at around
maybe 8 weeks of pregnancy.  Unfortunately, I found out at 16 weeks that
I'd lost the baby.  At that point, I worried that my milk might *come in*
when I delivered the fetus, but because that process was substantially
delayed--to make a long story short, at 32 weeks now I have not passed
any tissue--it gave my milk production time to cease.  I lost a couple
bra cup sizes within a week, and although Patrick nurses 1-2 times a day
still, there's nothing.  (Actually, he likes to pretend there is milk and
will tell me things like "it tastes like lemonade").

Most of my tandem nursing friends tell me they never quite lost all the
milk during pregnancy, and my unclinical observation is that the
younger the nursing toddler, the more milk seems to keep being produced.
Usually production does drop somewhat and the toddlers nurse less
frequently until the baby is born, then go to town on all that good
milk.  My friend's son who was 2 1/2 when his sister was born had
breastmilk bms for about a month!

Good luck and good health to you and your little ones,

Penny Piercy, LLLL, MOM (Patrick 4/6/93), and a few other acronyms
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