Pumping breast milk to relieve
painful full breasts and prevent a plugged duct and potential infection is smart.
Not exact matches
Allowing your
breasts to become
full can be
painful, can cause your milk supply to drop, and could lead to complications like plugged ducts or mastitis.
But overly
full or engorged
breasts can be very
painful and feel very hard.
Although
painful,
full breasts mean that you are producing enough milk for your baby!
This is when your
breasts become hard and
painful because they are too
full of milk.
If your
breasts are too
full before you begin to express they may start to become
painful.
If your
breasts feel hard, swollen,
painful, and uncomfortably
full, you're likely suffering from engorgement, which can make it hard for your baby to nurse well.
Without a good latch, your baby may get distracted and you may feel that your
breasts are still
full at the end, which can be
painful.
Sadly, this is not the case, as during the days that your milk comes in (usually starting three or four days after the birth) tend to be associated with
full, even rock - hard, and
painful breasts.
My
breasts are always
full and very
painful, my baby coughs and chokes at feedings, spits up after each feeding but does not how signs of acid reflux, I produce 4 - 6 oz on each side when pumping after my baby eats, constantly leaking (getting clothes wet even with
breast pads), and have gotten mastitis requiring antibiotics already.
Your
breasts may be
full and heavy, as well as
painful.
You may become so engorged that your
breasts are
painful, or the baby is unable to attach to a
full nipple.
Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly
painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and
breasts that are so
full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).