slow filling boob
Printed From: OHbaby!
Category: General Chat
Forum Name: General Chat
Forum Description: For mums, dads, parents-to-be, grandparents, friends -- you name it! And you name the topic you want to chat about!
URL: https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=23877
Printed Date: 10 October 2025 at 6:50am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.05 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: slow filling boob
Posted By: noisybaby
Subject: slow filling boob
Date Posted: 20 January 2009 at 11:08am
|
does anyone else who is breastfeeding have a boob that fills up faster than the other. My right boob fills up three times faster than the left. It makes feeding a challenge somethimes as it feels as thou only one boob has milk in it. I've tried expressing to increase the production and leaving her to suck on it for longer but nothing. I'm starting to feel like a lopsided milk tanker.....
|
Replies:
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 20 January 2009 at 11:13am
i actually got told once by a plunket nurse that it's not the amount of time that the baby spends on the breast but the amount of times it's drained. so maybe offer the left side first and then when that's drained, offer the right. i have the same problem but that's because maia prefers feeding from the right breast so it always seems to be fuller than the left, i can definitely sympathise with the lopsided feeling! how old is your baby? after a while the milk production settles down and your boobies don't get so full anymore.
-------------
|
Posted By: noisybaby
Date Posted: 20 January 2009 at 1:12pm
|
shes 6mths. I've tried that but she has this thing that if the milk isn't coming out fast enough she cries and pulls off. the leftie is slow to drain also. oh well we'll keep trying
|
|