Will expressing dry up my milk - really worried

[TTC LADY]

One of my boobs is really sore which is making it impossible to nurse at the moment, until it heals up. In the meantime I am feeding off a single breast and expressing from the sore one.

I really want to continue BF and not switch to Formula. But I am really worried that my milk will dry up in the boob LO is not nursing from.

Has anyone got a similar experience, did your milk dry up, what did you do to maintain supply.

Appreciate some comments as this is worrying me quite a bit. I always set out to BF until at least 6 months.

 

[mwah_xx]

I would guess at 3 months your supply is pretty established.

Keep expressing regularly as often as you can and I think you will find that you have no problems.

My LO bit my right nipple and it blistered when he was 7 months old. I stopped feeding from the right side for 4 days and expressed what I could. And I'm still going!!

I was also away from my LO for 2 nights at 5 months and I just expressed morning and night and we picked back up.

He now has a bottle of formula a night BUT that is through choice and prior to 3 weeks ago this was a bottle of expressed BM. I just developed a hate hate relationship with my pump?

Hth.

 

[F0xybabe]

I had the same thing after I skipped a side by accident. Honestly I found expressing useless for the sore boob! I squeezed my nipple by hand. But I did it every 20 minutes or so as much as I could! Within one day it was better.

 

[misspriss]

Depends on how you are expressing. Many, many women return to work and express all day and their supply doesn't dry up. I'm sure hand expression would work short term, a manual pump might make it easier. Expressing is not as effective as a baby, but it works.