What part of pregnancy does milk production usually start ?

What part of pregnancy does milk production usually start ?

From what's been written about lactation it's generally a couple of weeks into the second trimester of the pregnancy . . .

Clinical books relating to midwifery would confirm this, as might some of our lovely zity mother's ?

By the time I was 6 months pregnant I had enough milk to donate to the hospital, I had so much I could have fed at least 6 babies.. every time I would hear a baby cry I would leak all over the place 😩. Everywhere I went I had extra clothes, those little breast pads did nothing, I used double washcloths to stop the flow. Usually women don't have full milk untill the baby is born, some women do have actual milk, not colostrum. Everyone is different.

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With my first, I didn't start lactating until around 3 weeks after birth. I felt as if I was failing as a mother not being able to feed my baby. My second was born while I was still breastfeeding my first.

My third was born years later and around 30 weeks I was leaking almost constantly.