Painful breast lumps

I am currently combi feeding through breastfeeding and using bottle for expressed breast milk. Baby 2weeks +2.

I have discovered painful lumps on both sides. Even with either pumping or breastfeeding every 3/4 hours. Anyone else experiencing this or knows how to deal with it.

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hi! It's probably clogged milk ducts!! It's super heavy and uncomfortable, you have to use hot water and massage them to release the milk 🩷

Can you drop the pumping and giving expressed milk and just breast feed on demand for the time being?
This will help clear any clogged ducts, it does hurt but feed through it and the relief is amazing!
You could be using the wrong flange size on your pump also which could be causing the lumps xx

I took sunflower lecithin for my clogged ducts and it helped so much!!!!

Put a hot wet flannel on them, massage and then feed. I have found this clears them fairly quickly and the relief is amazing

Yes I have had the same, I found massaging them really helps and also releases all the milk getting stuck there too -Good Luck! 🙂👍🏼

I second this - the relief is amazing just keep sticking baby on there!

I've just got over Mastitis so I'd definitely say get on top of it now before it becomes infected. Warm compresses, hot shower/bath, massage, also massage during breastfeeding x

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