Home Forums Induced Lactation aka Adoptive Breastfeeding Medical Interventions to Induce Lactation/Increase Milk Supply I don't smell?!!!

I started taking the fenugreek about 2.5 weeks ago. I do not smell like maple?! I have seen NO increase in my mild production(actually a decrease..if that even could be possible with the miniscule amount I am making?!)
Can I stop the fenugreek or should I keep trying it? melanie (frustrated and tired pumper!!)

Melanie everything with the protocol takes time I would not stop the fenugreek and just keep pumping regularly. Hang in there, I know it is hard. It will be so worth it in the long run.

I still don't smell either. I started taking the Fenugreek on July 4. And I still am making less than 1/2 oz. per 24 hours. But it increases a little bit every day. Hang in there Melanie!!! I gave up with my first adoption and I have regretted it every single day since.

thanks...I just thought I should be smelling sweet by now! I am most definitly NOT giving up...I will keep taking the fenugreek. I am hoping to be in Ethiopia in the next 5-6 weeks to meet our new daughter and hopefully even though she will be about 5 months by then she will latch. I need and want to keep going at least until I know if she will latch or not!

Are you taking fenugreek capsules or drinking tea? I have heard that the tea is not strong enough a dose to give you the maple smell and to have enough of an effect on milk supply.
Jennifer

I am taking 9 capsules a day..melanie

I only smell a slight smell in my arm pits. Nothing more.

Hi! I'm new here and have a 7 week old baby boy. I started nursing when he was 4 weeks and started the Fenugreek (9 per day) and blessed thistle (9 per day) then, too. I don't smell either. However, I found in the health food store a liquid fenugreek, and I spelled immediately. The lady at my health food store said there is also a one-a-day pill. Which one should we be taking? I'm still not getting any milk, but didn't do the domperidone yet, either, since we got the call about our boy the day he was born. I'm just now ordering it, hoping it will do the trick. Should I keep up with the herbs until then? I use the lact-aid system when nursing.
Thanks!
Becky

I would keep taking the herbs while you wait for Dom. The pills 3 times daily are better as they keep the level in your system balanced.

Don't be frustrated Melanie. I have been taking the fenugreek for more than 2 weeks already and am not smelling like maple AT ALL. Oh, and my milk production is still the same darn 2oz. per day. I've been pumping for almost 3 months now, so I think we're not all the same, and some of us have bodies that work faster.

I have faith it will all eventually work out and my body will produce more milk, it's just not that fast.

Hang in there. Hope the 5 weeks fly by and you have your baby girl in your arms already.

Good luck.