I have been requested by a mother of a 4wk baby (her3rd) to help with her
recurrent mastitis due to oversupply. This has been a problem with all her
babies and she is desperate to find something new :~(
I was reading back on past Lactnet messages and found a referance to
Lecithin and Sage Tea. Please can someone give me the dose/recipe for the
sage tea (do you just use normal sage herbs from the supermarket?) and the
same for Lecithin, here you can buy it in various forms ie powder, granules
and tablets.
This mother has tried all the normal things, making sure one breast is
finished before starting on the next, being careful not to overstimulate, etc.
Any other suggestions will be useful.

I also have another mother (must be my lucky week) who is trying to dry up
her milk supply :-e
She is mother of 6 wk twins. She had stabbing pain from when they were
treated for thrush (mother never treated) which they got after the
antibiotics, post circumcision. She then started expressing with a double
pumping system as it was too painful to feed. She kept up with their needs
perfectly, but found this exhausting (despite being surrounded by help etc)
and became very depressed (she has a history of depression). Visited MD who
refused to give her Parlodel :-) (it is still used here not infrequently for
suppression of lactation) and told her to go home and breastfeed.
She decided to head for the formula and try to suppress her lactation
herself and ended up very engorged with a breast infection. This is when I
saw her.
I put the babies to her the breast, they fed beautifully and sorted out the
mastitis. She fed them for 24  hours at the breast, but still had the
shooting pains, nipples were very pink and a bit swollen. I have put her on
thrush treatment, but this is slow and unfortunately she decided definately
to stop breastfeeding.
Now I am trying to get her supply down. I Have explained the need to do this
slowly and she is not becoming engorged after 2 hours, like she was, I have
now suggested she go to single pumping 3 hourly (she cannot go longer
without becoming very uncomfortable) and gradually start putting off the
pumping if she feels OK. She is expressing for 5 mins each side, then 3
mins, then 2 and finishing.
She found another lump yesterday and moved it with showers and massage etc.
She is desperate to get rid of this milk.
I am obviously finding this hard as I have other mothers who would love to
be in her situation, but the one positive remark she made was. "I am so glad
I had 4 good feeds with the boys, so have happier memories of feeding than
before you came"
I guess one has to get rewards where you can! Any help would be greatly
appreciated.