When does breast milk stop producing?

after how long does breast milk stop producing after giving birth? and if it does stop producing at a later time, will the breast milk produce again if the child sucks on the breast?

it won't reproduce again once its gone... until you have another child. but I'm not sure how long it takes for you to stop producing once you start!

It will keep producing if you keep breastfeeding as long as 5years maybe more. I'm sure you won't need to breastfeed that long but that's how long I have heard of one mother breastfeeding. Too long I think.

it will keep on producing as long as the child is still breastfeeding. you can still keep on breastfeeding once the child stops if you breastfeed other children. after a few weeks of not breastfeeding, your body will realize that is should stop producing, so it does.

once you stop breast feeding it will gradually go away . be careful not to stop too suddenly as you may end up with mastitis. you can get symptoms of a cold with mastitis and a burning feeling in the booby. I think there are drugs you can get from your g/p that get the milk to dry up faster .

In the old days nomadic people without any access to birth control used to keep on breast feeding until the child was old enough to walk a good long way on their own - say 5 years old. The milk keeps on coming, and the reason they did this was that, in their under-nourished state, breast feeding was a pretty good form of birth control - they weren't likely to have another baby until their older child was able to walk in their travelling tribe. IT DOESN'T WORK AS BIRTH CONTROL IN OUR WELL-FED LIVES so don't try it!!!

So yes, breast milk keeps on going more or less as long as you need it to. I think that about a year is great - I managed just under a year for both my sons, but, like bigmuma says, you need to gradually do it less and less, both for your own health and for the child to get used to stopping.

If you do stop, and go onto bottles alone, then I think the milk dries up pretty quickly and won't come again. Maybe a week? Maybe a bit more, as oaklandathletics says. It must be to do with hormones, sending the message that the milk isn't needed any more.

okay cool, thanks for all your answers.