I just stopped breastfeeding last night and my boobs are in pain already. Are there any recommendations for the pain and stopping the milk??
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You will need to do it gradually. Hand express a little when they feel engorged and after a bit of time your supply will naturally decrease/stop.
I’ve heard cabbage leaves are good and warm showers with hot compress

thank you

If you can’t hand express enough maybe get a Manuel hand pump and pump for a few min to help release the pain

Make sure you express small amoubts or you'll end yp with mastitis xxxx

Thank you. Im not too good at hand expressing so I was wondering if the hand pump would work. I thought at first of you keep letting Milk come out it will keep reproducing.

No it’s mostly if you fully empty then you will. If you slowly go down on how much you take out then it’ll slowly go down. But you don’t need to hurt yourself for it to stop

You can try things that dry up milk like peppermint, rosemary, cold medicine, etc. I did small amounts of expression and my favourite peppermint vanilla tea and after about 4 days the pain was better.