is my milk in??

[prettymachine]

im sure you see this question from new mom's all the time...but i am not sure! i have enough to feed her when she wants... but i dont feel like my boobs have engorged at all...they dont hurt or feel "full" but i will be 6 days postpartum in the morning... shouldnt they have swelled up, felt tingley/achey by now? or can your milk be in without pain or fullness?

 

[minties]

I never got any pain or fullness when my milk came in. I only ever felt full if I missed a feed (like if Thomas slept longer at night than usual, or we went out and my mum gave him some milk I had expressed earlier).

 

[prettymachine]

Interesting! I keep expecting to wake up with "huge boobs" like everyone had happen to them...but it never happens lol. I dont have the "streams" come out when i squeeze them either...just lots of beading of milk on the end.

 

[kerrie24]

It can be up to 6 days when your milk comes in.Mine was easily missed,I had two rocks in place of breasts haha but it doesnt happen like that for everyone.

 

[summer rain]

Many women if they feed regularly from day one, never experience engorgement, I only experienced engorgement with my eldest and this one; my eldest because his latch wasn't very good and this one because I had a crazy oversupply from the beginning which has never settled down and I still get engorgement even now xx

 

[Lilly12]

If your baby poop is yellow, your milk is in (i think).. also squeeze your nipple, if milk comes out, then you know!

 

[prettymachine]

she didnt poop since the day she was born until last night... it was meconnium again but lightening up.

i have white come out when i squeeze, but its not in "streams" like i was told it would be.

 

[Lilly12]

she didnt poop since the day she was born until last night... it was meconnium again but lightening up.

i have white come out when i squeeze, but its not in "streams" like i was told it would be.

When your let down happens it'll be in streams.. when you just squeeze it'll likely be drops.

I'm not sure but I thought in the first week baby should be having a stool for each day of life, 1 on day 1, 2 on day 2, etc.
I'd def keep an eye on it, once your milk comes in if baby still isn't pooping at least 3 times a day, I'd get it checked out just to be sure.
IS your LO peeing enough?

 

[prettymachine]

she pees like crazy... and my pediatrician said its fine... he said breastfed babies are different...one may poop every time they eat and one may poop once a week and either is considered "normal." i brought it up to him twice lol.