Strong letdown

Any breastfeeding mamas have any tips to help baby get through a super strong letdown? He starts coughing and unlatches and ends up with milk all over his face and all over me. My husband didn’t believe me how intense it was until he saw it spray across the room when he unlatched earlier. I’ve tried to recline, side laying, laying on my back and it doesn’t seem to help. I’ve tried pumping through a letdown/ using a haaka and nursing the other side first but I have several letdowns in a nursing session and they are all strong. It’s only my right side that he struggles with so it must not be as bad on the left.

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Maybe try pumping before ? There are some elvies that are manual pumps and are pretty affordable, you can probably only buy one to help with your let down before giving the baby the boob.

Here is a link for the product, it’s not super high tech but I think it could help

https://www.elvie.com/en-us/shop/elvie-curve

I will look into it! I’m willing to try anything!

hi ! ive been having this issue too. What helps me a little is pumping right before. I use the Modela handpump they gave me at the hospital. I fill up a whole 2 oz bottle before I nurse her. I hope it works for you 🥹🤞🏼

I saw a lactation counselor for this last week. She said express a little before hand, feed often (I BF every 2 hours) to make sure you’re not engorged, feed in a laid back position until baby gets the hang of managing the milk flow & babies hopefully get more proficient with this with age.

I found a nipple shield helpful in the early days because it caught alot of my let down but baby got really gassy & they can become too use to a nipple shield if you use it a lot.

Don’t give up! I did with my first & became an exclusive pumper :(

I’ve tried the hand pump and it didn’t work well for me so maybe I need to try a different one because I was never able to get much with it

he’s getting a little each time thankfully. He does take a bottle from my husband so that helps to have that as an option if he just can’t stay latched

I found after my second let down my LO can latch longer. Idk how long your feeds are but maybe pump or hand express into a bottle through the first let down and breast feed after. I know it’s such a struggle because it’s extra stuff to do & im like can I please be like every other mama who easily picks their baby up with one swoop and they’re latched.. please 😅😭 lol

it’s such a process but I’m learning what works and he’s figuring it out too. I try to rotate which side he starts on but maybe I need to always start on the left since the letdown isn’t as intense on that side and catch the letdown on the right so he can latch there second. We’ll get it figured out!

Pump or express for a couple minutes before and also put baby in an almost sitting up position to feed , it helps a lot

Try pumping right before

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