Anyone else has/had oversupply of milk

jellybeanbaby · Mar 26th, 2012, 17:14 PM

I totally messed myself up with the bf thing. My son is only a week old and i messed myself up thinking i was able to pump early, but learned that makes my breast produce more milk and now i have a oversupply of milk and really bad engorged breast with plug milk ducts. i learned(or googled) that i should just block feed and feed off one breast at a time(AND NOT PUMP)this is working good so far but still painful(almost gave up). My question is because i can't find the answer to it is how long does this last? how long does it take for my breast to be back to norma or stop being so engorged when i don't feedl, sometimes i rather be in labor again.

RaspberryK · Mar 26th, 2012, 18:19 PM

I have always had an over supply which is unrelated to early or regular expressing. It has started to settle slightly over the past few weeks and coincided with me having a bad stomach bug and being unable to even drink water for 48 hours. These days I am only engorged for the first half of the day.
I think in "normal" people it settles fairly quickly.
x

luz · Mar 26th, 2012, 18:41 PM

I had tHis problem too because of early pumping. I block fed and still pumped once a day instead of after every feeding and it settled around 2 months. I still have tons of milk though. I pump 6 oz per side each time. It's not so painful anymore though

jellybeanbaby · Mar 26th, 2012, 19:10 PM

thank you ladies i just hope it passes soon or at least ease up soon, it's sucks

bluesky · Mar 27th, 2012, 07:44 AM

I still have over supply and forceful let down, the engorgement settled after a couple of weeks. I still block feed and sometimes pump a little off before starting to feed.

Mar 26th, 2012, 17:14 PM	#1
jellybeanbaby Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 139	Anyone else has/had oversupply of milk I totally messed myself up with the bf thing. My son is only a week old and i messed myself up thinking i was able to pump early, but learned that makes my breast produce more milk and now i have a oversupply of milk and really bad engorged breast with plug milk ducts. i learned(or googled) that i should just block feed and feed off one breast at a time(AND NOT PUMP)this is working good so far but still painful(almost gave up). My question is because i can't find the answer to it is how long does this last? how long does it take for my breast to be back to norma or stop being so engorged when i don't feedl, sometimes i rather be in labor again.

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Mar 26th, 2012, 18:19 PM	#2
RaspberryK Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Northamptonshire, England Posts: 4,629	I have always had an over supply which is unrelated to early or regular expressing. It has started to settle slightly over the past few weeks and coincided with me having a bad stomach bug and being unable to even drink water for 48 hours. These days I am only engorged for the first half of the day. I think in "normal" people it settles fairly quickly. x

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Mar 26th, 2012, 18:41 PM	#3
luz Pregnant (Expecting) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 1,290	I had tHis problem too because of early pumping. I block fed and still pumped once a day instead of after every feeding and it settled around 2 months. I still have tons of milk though. I pump 6 oz per side each time. It's not so painful anymore though

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Mar 26th, 2012, 19:10 PM	#4
jellybeanbaby Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 139	thank you ladies i just hope it passes soon or at least ease up soon, it's sucks

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Mar 27th, 2012, 07:44 AM	#5
bluesky Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 3,994	I still have over supply and forceful let down, the engorgement settled after a couple of weeks. I still block feed and sometimes pump a little off before starting to feed.

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