Excessive Milk Production

Your body is producing more milk than your child needs. From a medical standpoint, this is a hormonal dysregulation — prolactin too high, feedback loops disturbed, sometimes without any identifiable cause. There are medications, there are techniques, there are strategies. And yet a question remains, one that is rarely asked: Why is your body giving more than is needed?

Breastfeeding is one of the most intimate acts between two human beings. It is nourishment, connection, protection — all at once. When your body loses all sense of measure in this act, when it produces ceaselessly, as though it could never give enough, it is telling a story that goes beyond hormones. It is telling the story of a woman whose entire system is programmed to give — and who does not know how to stop.

Excessive milk production is not an abundance — it is an invasion of giving upon the body itself.