7 weeks pp, still engorged?!

divakotka · April 2011

From birth, DS2 has been doing 4-6 hour stretches at night, usually starting around 2am. Before that, he clusterfeeds all evening/night. Then after I wake up from one of those longer stretches, I am still terribly engorged and it hurts SO bad. This has been happening every night ever since my milk came in.

In fact, I am starting to wonder if maybe the nightly engorgement causes pain throughout the rest of the day, even when my breasts become completely soft? I don't think I have any plugged ducts because he does an excellent job completely draining me as the day goes by, lol.

I keep reading that your supply will adjust on its own after a while but I didn't think it would take weeks to do that. Can I encourage that somehow? My breasts feel sore all.day.long.

Thanks for any advice you may have!

ebeemcg · April 2011

I will be 6 weeks pp tomorrow, and this morning I was so engorged I woke up and had soaked through my nursing pad, bra and shirt sometime last night. So I'm wondering the same thing! =/

KatieB19 · April 2011

I got engorged and soaked through breast pads daily until DS was 11 or 12 weeks old. When DS went long stretches, I would have to express some milk before feeding him because he couldn't latch properly. Don't worry, they will adjust

PunkyBooster · April 2011

I dealt with engorgement until nearly 3 months pp. I am nice and evened out now!

forensicmama · April 2011

It takes a while for your boobs to get the message that "enough is enough" and for their production to even out. I remember that at 5 months pp, I no longer needed nursing pads.

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