Engorged!!!
6 weeks tomorrow and starting to go slightly longer between feeds and I am super engorged! I feel like my boobs have upgraded lol they are huge. I have been hand expressing 1-2oz to relieve the pressure because I dont want to pump and make the problem worse, but even after 2-3 hours at night I wake up very sore and lumpy and have to express a bit before the baby feeds, any tips?? I only ever use a proper pump if I am away and he has two bottles in a row so thats only been a handful of times. Scared of mastitis!!
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Not sure if helpful but my LO is 7 weeks and last week it was like my supply shot up and I was engorged and also worried about mastitis. I do pump and I could tell I was able to pump a lot more in a 5 min pump but was worried I was over doing it (even though not pumping much). Anyway I left everything how it was and my boobs have gone back to normal over the last day or so and baby is sleeping longer stretches and I’m not waking up engorged and lumpy. Just a strange few days where I guess my supply was still settling ? So perhaps just wait it out and don’t over stimulate them in between feeds because that will signal that they need to produce milk so see if you can ease off the hand expressing maybe
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