13-10-2023, 08:53 AM
Thanks for the lovely comments. You're making me feel so much better about myself.
So I'm at a kinda interesting point right now... I'm heading to our summerhouse with fiance + doggo and my mother for the weekend, there's some things to make ready for the winter over there and its our last chance to go for a while as my fiance is having her second carpal tunnel surgery coming up next wednesday, so very soon I'll be tied at home being her nurse and helper as its dififcult to do much being one handed for a while.
I'm also running out of lactation aiding herb stuff, moringa, shatavari and goats rue all run out within few days. So far the experiment with lactation has been somewhat successful. I lactate easily, its an easy start but getting supply go up is hard to pull off. So far the methods seem to be sound and the herb combination works really nicely. I think what my problem is, is likely too low doses and perhaps lowering my progesterone levels might help? I'm spot on with estrogens so I don't want to mess up with that because I feel horrible if my levels go too high or too low so I rather just keep going as usual, but knowing how these things balance each other and can inhibit each other... I may want to try to stock up, start out again on higher doses and letmy progesterone level drop in case its been keeping my prolactin in check. Obviously making a massive E + PG crash is an option but I would rather not do that. Then as a last option there's the bulldozer method called domperidone.
What I'm thinking off is to take a break from the herbs, but keep pumping going as usual as its so beneficial to nipples and stimulation alone keeps prolactin going quite well. Stock up on herbs, I already have one order placed and my girlfriend promised to help me out soon to stock up some more. Take my time so I have plenty of everything, enough to have the chance to tweak dosages without anything running out too soon.
I really want this to work out. Methods are correct, getting milk supply higher is the problem and it feels like either I'm not getting my prolactin high enough or there's something inhibiting it. Its been amazing to breast growth in general, but this isn't all of it. I'll take a break, prepare and think how to proceed and do another run. I know I can make this happen.
So I'm at a kinda interesting point right now... I'm heading to our summerhouse with fiance + doggo and my mother for the weekend, there's some things to make ready for the winter over there and its our last chance to go for a while as my fiance is having her second carpal tunnel surgery coming up next wednesday, so very soon I'll be tied at home being her nurse and helper as its dififcult to do much being one handed for a while.
I'm also running out of lactation aiding herb stuff, moringa, shatavari and goats rue all run out within few days. So far the experiment with lactation has been somewhat successful. I lactate easily, its an easy start but getting supply go up is hard to pull off. So far the methods seem to be sound and the herb combination works really nicely. I think what my problem is, is likely too low doses and perhaps lowering my progesterone levels might help? I'm spot on with estrogens so I don't want to mess up with that because I feel horrible if my levels go too high or too low so I rather just keep going as usual, but knowing how these things balance each other and can inhibit each other... I may want to try to stock up, start out again on higher doses and letmy progesterone level drop in case its been keeping my prolactin in check. Obviously making a massive E + PG crash is an option but I would rather not do that. Then as a last option there's the bulldozer method called domperidone.
What I'm thinking off is to take a break from the herbs, but keep pumping going as usual as its so beneficial to nipples and stimulation alone keeps prolactin going quite well. Stock up on herbs, I already have one order placed and my girlfriend promised to help me out soon to stock up some more. Take my time so I have plenty of everything, enough to have the chance to tweak dosages without anything running out too soon.
I really want this to work out. Methods are correct, getting milk supply higher is the problem and it feels like either I'm not getting my prolactin high enough or there's something inhibiting it. Its been amazing to breast growth in general, but this isn't all of it. I'll take a break, prepare and think how to proceed and do another run. I know I can make this happen.