Do you still produce milk when you are pregnant while breastfeeding?



Breastfeeding pregnancy will still produce milk, but the amount of milk produced will gradually decrease until it disappears.

The level of estrogen and progesterone in the body will increase during breastfeeding and inhibit the secretion of prolactin in the body, so the amount of milk secretion will decrease, and with the increase in the number of weeks of pregnancy, the amount of milk secretion may gradually decrease until the cessation of lactation.

The decrease in milk secretion after breastfeeding to determine the pregnancy is a normal performance, to continue the pregnancy can be considered weaning, milk secretion is too small to meet the baby’s nutritional needs, may cause the baby nutritional deficiencies, is not conducive to the normal growth and development of the baby.

After breastfeeding to determine the pregnancy to continue the pregnancy, the early trimester of pregnancy to follow the doctor’s advice to take folic acid tablets, can prevent fetal neural tube malformation, but also pay attention to nutritional supplements, is conducive to the development of the fetus in the womb.