Bf fast letdown

Any tips for breastfeeding with very fast letdown? I’m talking milk literally spraying out at sonic speed 😂
Little girl is choking quite often on it and it stresses me

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My son was like this until my supply regulated at about 8-10 weeks. Only advice is when you feel a letdown coming, catch it in a muslin cloth and latch baby back on!

Pump for 2 mins before feeding

Also experienced the same thing, I don’t have any tips, but it did stop by the time he was around 8weeks 😊 x

Same for me. I agree, latching on laying back tends to help us. Also I have a manual pump and will express an ounce or so before she feeds. I went to a breastfeeding group and they have been trying to help me get a deeper latch which can help but she’s stubborn and we still have a shallow latch 😅 my letdown tends to be worse in the days after shes cluster fed then it will level off x

I have a fast let down and I found expressing for about 30 seconds-1 minute helped slow it down.
I also found opting for positions where gravity could help so lying on my side, koala hold- anything where my daughter was higher than my boob helped her with the choking☺️x

I try to use my elvie curve for a couple of mins pre feeding and that seems to help x

I use my electric pump for a few mins before a feed. Appreciate this isn’t always possible though.. I’ve experienced the same and I always feel so bad 😔 x

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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