Re: the mom still leaking  with 3 months old baby.
With my first baby, I leaked a lot. Always changing and washing breast
pads, changing my shirt 4 times a day, slept with towels under me at
night.I would get up to go to the bathroom at night and leave a trail of
white drops on the floor. A lot of leaking/spraying of milk out of the
breast that was not being nursed.This lasted for 4 months.
I really stocked up on the nursing pads when preg. with baby 2, sure I
would need them again. surprise- I didn't need them nearly as much, nor
with baby 3.
There are lots of individual variation among moms re:leaking, and lots
of indiv. variations Re: an particular mom and her experiences with
nursing more than one baby and leaking.
Assuming there are not other signs of anything amiss, lots of leaking in
and of itself does not mean anything is wrong.It is one of those things
that is basically a laundry problem, like spitting up usually is.
I usually encounter the opposite situation: new moms are often concerned
because they DON'T leak, and feel sure that this is a sign that they are
not producing milk, or that they are not producing "enough".
Some moms leak, some don't, some leak alot, others a little, some for a
few weeks, some for months. . . "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".


Ellen Vegh, LLLL, Pittsburgh,PA