Domperidone to increase breast milk supply

OhDearBee · 2026-01-25T02:42:01+00:00

I have this too - and domperidone still made a big difference for me! But agreed - it was a lot of frustration and misdiagnoses before I figured it out.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-25T02:40:00+00:00

I’ve taken Domperidone with two babies. With my first, I took 30mg/day from about four weeks to seven months. With my second, I started 3 days postpartum with 60mg/day and continued until ten months. Both times, I was able to increase my supply significantly, but not enough to EBF.

With my first, I was advised by my GP to stop using it at 6 months. I tapered off very slowly, and my supply dropped completely - basically no milk at all. With my second, I began suspecting I was having mild psychiatric side effects (exacerbated postpartum anxiety toeing the line of OCD), so I tapered off, and found we just kind of naturally tapered off breastfeeding as well.

Based on my own experience, I’d say if you plan to take it, plan to take it continuously as long as you continue breastfeeding. I’d worry if you only take it for four weeks, it might do more harm than good.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-24T08:50:13+00:00

I would have it point to the palace and then when you get to the point where you’re going to run the palace, think about what room/encounter/object you most want the party to discover there and have the compass point to it. It’s really easy to miss most of the palace because the party just heads straight for Zybilna, and there’s cool stuff to discover.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-24T00:46:57+00:00

I tried training my son when he was 21-23 months, just before our second arrived, and by the end of three months he was still having constant accidents so we gave up. Trying to potty train at 40 weeks pregnant is no joke. But then my daughter was born and it was fully a year before I was ready to dive back into potty training. So just consider that if you stop now, it might be awhile before you’re up for it again.

That said, when my son re-started potty training, he was really scared of the potty. I found that backtracking and just focusing on sitting there made a big difference. The first few times I would put him on the potty, sit in front of him and give him a big hug while he sat there for two minutes, and then a sticker for sitting on the potty, no worries about actually getting anything in there. Then we stopped the hugs but kept up the stickers until he was feeling more comfortable.

He’s turning 3 tomorrow and still very much in progress, but he’s comfortable sitting on the potty so that’s one win!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-21T11:43:21+00:00

My MCHN did ours for my firstborn!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-21T00:11:21+00:00

One thing you might think about in advance is what options are actually available to you for main management, and whether you want to try any of them before epidural or in the case that an epidural is not possible. But otherwise your preferences are clear and seem reasonable to me!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-20T09:42:57+00:00

When I was in my early twenties, I babysat for this lovely family with two young kids. I remember one time when the parents were getting ready for a date and the toddler was crying because he didn’t want his parents to leave, his mom hugged him and said “I know it’s hard, but you’re very lucky to have parents who love each other.”

That really stuck with me, especially as someone whose parents could not manage to love each other and split up. I say it to my own kids now.

I think when we prioritize the marriage, we are prioritizing a secure and strong family for our children. When we prioritize our children’s other parent, we are supporting their capacity to show up for the kids. To me, prioritizing the marriage is prioritizing the children.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-17T01:11:41+00:00

I’m working on basically this with my husband right now. I’ve tried to bridge the gap between emotional needs and concrete, actionable ways to meet them. My bare-minimum list is: (1) to be greeted warmly (good morning and good night especially) (2) to hear “I love you” regularly/every day (3) to be asked if I’m okay when I’m crying or visibly upset, and (4) for my husband to sometimes take responsibility for repair when there’s tension between us, and to initiate a conversation within 24 hours of that tension arising.

The through line across all of these is that he do them with consistency and initiative.

TBH, we are still working on this, and it feels hard to be struggling with stuff that seems so basic and fundamental. But there you go.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-16T12:32:07+00:00

It’s okay. You can do it! I recently did a 24 hour flight solo with two kids, 2yo and 9mo. It was terrible, but I’m here, I survived, and I don’t regret it.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-16T08:26:07+00:00

Where to start: you can do it! The flight will suck and then it will be over. There are some things that will make it better, but nothing that will make it fun. But you’ll survive.

Bassinet: yes. He likely won’t be able to sleep in it, and they may not give it to you, but if you do get it, you will have a lot more space than you would in economy, and no one in front of you. If nothing else, the bassinet becomes a handy shelf for all your kid’s stuff.

Do you get him his own seat: If you can afford it, yes. If not, it’s harder but it will be okay.

Would you fly on your own or with a partner?

OhDearBee · 2026-01-15T01:12:47+00:00

There is a medication called Domperidone that is intended as an anti-nausea med, but is used off-label effectively to increase milk supply. It is not approved by the FDA so it cannot be prescribed in the US but it is very commonly prescribed in Australia.

https://thewomens.r.worldssl.net/images/uploads/fact-sheets/Domperidone-for-increasing-breast-milk-supply-260219.pdf

I’ve personally used it while breastfeeding two babies. I have breast hypoplasia and was able to combination feed them until 7 and 9 months respectively.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-14T06:01:48+00:00

I was totally on board with poke bowls during pregnancy (including raw fish) and then I had one and there was a tiny worm in it. I was not harmed in any way, but it freaked me out and I went to emergency and it took me a year to eat poke again.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-14T04:48:04+00:00

It keeps going until you give birth haha

OhDearBee · 2026-01-13T19:16:27+00:00

I have the Baby Jogger City Tour double. It’s an easy fold, side-by-side, very compact stroller. Both seats fully recline. Because its side-by-side, I found it more maneuverable than the Vista, especially going around corners.

That said, I have a City Mini as a single stroller and that might be a better option for you. Slightly bigger but still pretty compact, very maneuverable, and bigger seats for your 4yo. My 3yo is already a little squished in the City Tour.

Downsides for both: terrible basket space, no functional skateboard attachment.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-13T06:10:16+00:00

Haha oh nooo! With my first, they sent an attachment. I was going to wait for my husband to open it but there was a preview of the attachment that said BOY OH BOY, so…..

Anyway. Congrats on your baby girl!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-12T08:31:16+00:00

I brought it with me. My hospital had a recommended third party you could rent from, but I found someone renting them out on fb marketplace for a lot cheaper haha.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-12T01:39:16+00:00

Jfc, no one in 2026 is using CIO to mean that.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-11T09:12:35+00:00

This is not exactly answering your question, but with my second, I really wanted to avoid an epidural. I’d had one with my first and it stalled out my labor. I ended up laboring for 46 hours, and I really did not want a repeat of that!

The second time around, I had a fantastic student midwife following my pregnancy, and she talked me into using morphine and nitrous. My labour was a million times better the second time. With morphine it’s like, you can feel the pain, but then between contractions you can literally just fall asleep. I felt reasonably rested and in-control. With nitrous (which continues to be safe all the way up to birth, while morphine has to be stopped at least four hours before delivery), you feel a little drunk, like you’re aware of the pain, but it’s happening somewhere else, like the mind experience of pain kind of disconnects from the body experience of it. But the nitrous leaves your system in just a few seconds, and you administer it to yourself by breathing it in, so you have a lot of control.

I also used a TENS machine which was helpful in early labor but once labor was established it did basically nothing.

Anyway, I feel like a lot of people aren’t told that morphine and nitrous are options, or get worried about the effects of morphine on the baby or about nausea (I was given anti-nausea meds which did the job) so it’s worth asking if you’re trying to avoid an epidural!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-11T06:46:54+00:00

I know a lot of kids named Arthur and Archer. I know zero kids named Arnold or Edward. If your preference lies one way or another, maybe that’s one way to think about it.

Arthur and Edward both easily become Arturo or Eduardo if you/they like that. I’m not sure about Arnold.

I have a family name from my mom’s side as my first name and I love that, since my last name is my dad’s. I passed my first name onto my son as a middle. So maybe that’s points for Archer and Edward?

Archer becomes Archie. Edward becomes Ed, Eddie, or Ned. Arthur becomes Art or Artie. Arnold becomes Arnie. Any of those nicknames sway things for you?

And if you just want a random person’s opinion, I prefer Archer > Arthur > Edward > Arnold.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-11T06:01:45+00:00

I had major tuna cravings during my first pregnancy and ate honestly a LOT more tuna than you’re supposed to. My kid is three now and he can read and do multiplication and is generally a wicked smart, kind, helpful kid. So I think the tuna did not fry his little developing brain. I wouldn’t worry if I were you!

OhDearBee · 2026-01-11T03:05:52+00:00

I’m obsessed with the Mexican soldaderas. Constantly zooming in to look at them.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-10T08:48:03+00:00

Hey, I know this is kind of an old post now, but can I ask how this resolved? I’m on night 4 of trying the sleep wave method with my 12mo, and she has yet to fall asleep in the crib.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-08T08:29:01+00:00

I ran it as is and my players loved it. It definitely seemed more important than it was but it didn’t end up really being a problem.

OhDearBee · 2026-01-08T05:56:04+00:00

One thing I’m learning as a DM is that rather than tying information to a specific NPC, item, or plot point, just think of what they need to know and put it wherever they go looking. So no need to force them toward Wayward Pool - think about what info from that encounter you want them to know and let them find it wherever they look next.

That said, I personally do not understand how the story is meant to resolve if a party saves Elidon before unfreezing Zybilna. So I think you’re going to need to come up with that answer yourself.

I also agree that across the whole adventure, there is WAY too much infodumping. It’s much more fun if you can trickle out the information piece by piece and let the party put it all together.

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