Home Forums Induced Lactation aka Adoptive Breastfeeding Medical Interventions to Induce Lactation/Increase Milk Supply when can I stop the BCP

I'm rephrasing my question, here... I'm having terrible insomnia on the BCP and am wondering when I can come off? I've been on it 5 weeks and I am expecting to bring home my baby in April. I have tenderness and an increase in breast size, but five weeks seems kinda short. But I'm really missing my sleep! I work at home and could pump very frequently.

I did the protocol with the same BCP (Yasmin) two years ago but didn't have this problem before.

If you think you can commit to pumping the whole time, then I think it would be okay to go off the BCP. I stayed on it longer, but I didn't want to be stuck pumping long term.
Jennifer

Thanks! I can commit to pumping loads in the daytime, then during the night as the time gets close. It was hard last time when I couldn't pump at work, but it's different now.

Yep you can stop them now. I did the accelerated protocol and took the bcp for 42 days. When you stop the bcp add your herbs and get to pumping. Good luck!