Breast engorgement help

Try a warm shower and massaging them in the shower and then try pumping. That has helped me.

Cold compress can also help with engorged breast. They say cold cabbage leaves too

My OB said we could also grab a shallow bucket/bowl of some sort and fill it with warm water and epsom salt to soak your breasts in. Massage them also while soaking. This has helped me a lot!!

And massage down towards nipple to help push milk down. Cold compress for swelling, warm shower and warm compress to help milk drop.

The Hakka in the shower with warm water
Heating pads while pumping. I use the purple lansinoh
There is a boob massager called lavie that I’ve used while pumping

Good luck !

Hot shower along with massaging works wonders. You can also use the Hakka in the shower and can pump after as well. I had the same issue when my milk came in, and the hot showers were what helped most.

The cold cabbage leaves helped me a lot…

Oh man I'm so sorry to hear this call your OB they can tell you what to do as well I've never had this problem with any of my children (this baby is my 4th baby) I can't imagine 😢

@Kathy cold cabbage leaves also will dry your breast up or decrease your milk supply so unless she is planning to stop nursing baby I wouldn't recommend that. My grandmother tought me this trick when I had my first baby and that's how I dried my milk up so I could stop nursing

Everyone is different whatever works for them might not work on other people

I thought cabbage leaves were a trick to dry up milk