Inducing lactation and baby update

These next few posts will probably be shorter, because there’s not much detail in day to day inducing. 

Found out I can’t take allergy medicine because it dries up your milk. I was so happy to get off birth control and excited to start, but this is disappointing. I’m not going to lie, I really want to quit. It would be so easy to make a bottle and be done with it, but I’m not going to. I’ve wanted this for so long. Even as much as I wanted to carry a baby. Tonight I did a power pump and through a blanket over myself so I couldn’t analyze every minute. It was more relaxing. Hopefully i see a difference in a few days. 

Baby update: 

Only a few more weeks until the twins arrive! We’re at week 32 this week and go back to the doctor on Thursday. We’re hoping to get a induction date or narrow it down a little more. At 30 weeks they weighed close to 4 lbs give or take some. We will get a weight update Thursday too. We’re so excited for them to get here. Everything is finished all we have to do now is wait. Our last shower is Sunday. It’s been so much fun to celebrate with everyone. I just can’t wait to hold them. 

Inducing lactation

10-12-19

I should have been keeping a journal since we’re a year into this process, but I haven’t. First failure as a mom! I want to breast feed the babies, just like any mother that’s having a baby via a surrogate, to do that you need a medication not approved by the FDA. 

Fun fact: Reglan is used to induce lactation but it can penetrate brain matter, blood, and is detected in breast milk. Domperidone (what I’m taking) doesn’t penetrate either and only trace amounts are found in breast milk. 

After searching and more searching I found that you have a few options to buy domperidone. You can buy from an over seas pharmacy or buy it from eBay. I chose to try the eBay version since other people have used it and it’s helped. Tonight was the first dose which is ironic because a year ago today we took our first IVF shots. Every time we completed a step I thought ok I can breathe now. The hard part is over. I didn’t realize it then, but the hard part just started.