Leaking breasts - help!

If you express then your boobs will probably keep making what they are making now rather than making more but they won't calm down if that's what you want. If you do want to save some for freezing then avent sell collector cups that you wear on one side when feeding on the other and it collects the leaks from that side. I could normally end up with an extra 40-60mls doing this and it is milk that would otherwise just leak into a pad. I would then tip into a ice cube tray to freeze.

It can take quite a while for your boobs to calm down especially if you have a plentiful supply but it will happen in the end.

Not sure about the best pads but I mostly used the signature range disposable ones, I founds most of the cloth ones too big they made my boobs look odd.

What you could do is for now express after baby has finished feeding, yes you will produce all that milk again but in a few weeks it will settle down. I have heard that it can take up to 6 weeks to get everything settled when it comes to feeding.

If you are changing that often then I would be getting some more cloth pads.

Seems like different brands work better for different people, probably depending on the size of your boobs! I'm currently using the natracare ones - I got given a couple of boxes by people who know I'm a tree hugging hippie - but I have to say they don't seem to stay in place as well as the johnsons ones did. I never used the sticky pad on the back of the johnsons ones, left the backing paper on them so I could take them in and out of my bra while feeding.

Although as you wondered in the July babies thread, I think maybe my choice of bra has a big effect on whether the pads stay in place or not.

Following Emma's recommendation I ordered some of the foxybots boobie pads on the weekend, will let you know how they go once they arrive!

I got some of both so I can try them out, will be very interesting to see what the difference is. I promise to report back

My mw recommended sleeping with a disposable nappy on each boob if it gets v bad!

I'm sure it will settle down for you.

I still sleep with a towel near me just in case!

I vaguely recall sleeping in a pool of breastmilk for the first 6 months. Delightful. Sounds like you are heading the same way... enjoy

Flissty - I slept with flannels in last night. Very unsexy but did the trick for me.

i did 2 breast pads in each bra cup last night which cut down the leakage - will try 3 tonight.

lilfatty, now I know what to do with my left over maternity pads if the 3 breast pads don't work!

I'm still one sided feeding and have been since the beginning, I just have far too much milk and lil miss is a lazy feeder so doesn't get enough hind milk if I swap sides half way thru. I do get lopsided/engorged between feeds on one side tho
I've just ordered some new Foxybots pads coz I only have 6 pairs of washables and I need more.

Hey, this is really far too late for us July mums but thought I would bring up this thread in case any of the new mums are having these issues! I was getting fed up with my breast pads sliding around overnight and did a little googling out of interest and came across these: Booby Bib

They sound wonderful, I've done a bit of reading around various message boards and everybody that's tried them swear by them. I'm so getting a couple next time around.

The only place in NZ so far that I've seen them is Mummy Maternity, but they seem to have limited stock, only the smaller sizes at the moment. (Seems Breastmates used to have them but I can't find them on their site.) You can get all sizes from the Aussie manufacturer but it works out a fair bit more expensive.

On my messageboard trawling a few people also recommended Lilypadz, they might be worth a shot too.