Title: Breastfeeding questions
Stringaling - February 29, 2008 08:28 PM (GMT)
For Mrs. Puke or Sarah or anyone who has an answer...
How long should it be before the pain and engorgement subsides after the baby is born? How many weeks does it take for breastfeeding to be comfortable and painless?
rasplundjr - February 29, 2008 08:38 PM (GMT)
Took Misty little over a month to a month and a half til she stopped complaining about the pain.....
Though is something startles the boobacabra (well if a chupacabra is a mexican goat sucker... Sera is 1/4 mexican and she's a little boob sucker.. hence the boobacabra) Misty will yelp.....
RooMama - March 1, 2008 03:23 AM (GMT)
The engorgement last a couple of weeks, but it's usually about 6 weeks until things are comfortable (not necessarily painless).
Sarah - March 1, 2008 05:37 AM (GMT)
Six weeks for the major discomfort to go away but closer to 4 months before I feel comfortable and start enjoying it. The engorgement of the milk coming in lasts a couple weeks but you can still get engorged if you go too long between feedings for months.
Stringaling - March 2, 2008 06:05 PM (GMT)
Hmmm...I was wondering because When I tried to breastfeed, the engorgement never went away. Half an hour after a feeding my breasts would be engorged, hard, feverish and leaking again. Is that normal?
The pain was so unbearable that feedings were hell and I'd tense up and cry and get angry at the baby who caused it all...
rasplundjr - March 3, 2008 07:02 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Mar 2 2008, 12:05 PM) |
Hmmm...I was wondering because When I tried to breastfeed, the engorgement never went away. Half an hour after a feeding my breasts would be engorged, hard, feverish and leaking again. Is that normal?
The pain was so unbearable that feedings were hell and I'd tense up and cry and get angry at the baby who caused it all... |
Misty would switch off and get mad at Sera then Me lather rinse repeat.....
She's much better now a couple months in....
Stringaling - March 3, 2008 08:18 PM (GMT)
Add to that the pain from the c-section and I was a miserable wreck!
Stringaling - March 4, 2008 05:45 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Mar 2 2008, 01:05 PM) |
Hmmm...I was wondering because When I tried to breastfeed, the engorgement never went away. Half an hour after a feeding my breasts would be engorged, hard, feverish and leaking again. Is that normal?
The pain was so unbearable that feedings were hell and I'd tense up and cry and get angry at the baby who caused it all... |
Is this normal?
Keneke - March 4, 2008 05:49 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Mar 4 2008, 11:45 AM) |
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Mar 2 2008, 01:05 PM) | Hmmm...I was wondering because When I tried to breastfeed, the engorgement never went away. Half an hour after a feeding my breasts would be engorged, hard, feverish and leaking again. Is that normal?
The pain was so unbearable that feedings were hell and I'd tense up and cry and get angry at the baby who caused it all... |
Is this normal?
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I think so. I've read about /spoken to lots of women who felt that way...
Stringaling - March 4, 2008 06:09 PM (GMT)
the engorgement and leaking immediately after a feeding is normal?? Oh my lord!! :o
Stringaling - March 4, 2008 06:14 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (RooMama @ Feb 29 2008, 10:23 PM) |
| The engorgement last a couple of weeks, but it's usually about 6 weeks until things are comfortable (not necessarily painless). |
I was constantly engorged for the entire time I tried to BF.. Feeding didn't help. The lactation nurse at the hospital said pump in between to relieve engorgement, but that only make the engorgement worse by upping supply. When I was in the hospital those first few days they let me use a pump and when the lactation lady came in and saw how much I pumped she was floored. She said I wasn't supposed to have that much. Is is possible that I just produce way way too much?