How many days does it take for your breasts to return to normal?

After weaning, the breasts will no longer produce milk. No matter what kind of way you use to return milk, it usually takes 5-7 days for the milk to gradually decrease to stop producing, and then after a few months, the breasts will return to normal, and will no longer be overly plump and swollen. Returning to milk is generally divided into two kinds of artificial milk and natural return to milk, natural return to milk is generally 5-7 days, natural return to milk effect is not good people, can be through the medication for artificial return to milk, usually in a few days after taking the medication to see the effect, but due to the use of drugs to inhibit breast milk is not secreted, for the mother’s health there is a certain impact, so non-essential is not recommended to use. If the breasts are excessively swollen within 1 week of starting to return milk, a small amount of milk can be squeezed out, but the breasts should not be emptied, so as not to stimulate lactogen secretion to increase, resulting in the continued secretion of milk. Appropriate reduction of daily water intake can also reduce the secretion of milk. In addition, avoid the baby touching, sucking breasts, so as to avoid excessive dependence and weaning failure, can be through appropriate exercise, and wear a little tight clothing, to help the breasts to return to normal form, but pay attention to clothing fabrics to be comfortable, to reduce the friction of clothing for the breasts. It usually takes a few months for the breasts to return to normal after weaning, during this period the breasts can still overflow a small amount of milk, which is a normal phenomenon, and should not be rushed, but should be gradual.