Tingling breasts and nipples.

[Writerwannabe83]

I have a 5 week old baby who I'm breastfeeding and for the last 3ish days, out of nowhere, my breasts and nipples have started tingling. It isn't a constant tingle, it comes and goes, but when it is occurring it can last for a few minutes and be quite sharp and uncomfortable. It then just dies off and everything will feel normal again.

Has anyone else experienced this at all?

[josephine1986]

Yes, this happened to me. I wonder if it was around the same time, or later...but I had sharp, short stabbing pains inside my breast that would come and go between feeds. Like little pinpricks.
Lasted about a week then disappeared. Maybe was boobs adjusting, doesn't supply regulate at that time?

[Greypuddle]

I think this is just your 'let-down', isn't it? Your milk coming in. I certainly had it for the first few months, until my baby started reducing feeds, but you're a long way from that yet. Don't worry, anyway. Perfectly normal, as far as I'm concerned!

[Writerwannabe83]

It's driving me a little bit mad but I'm glad to hear it's normal. Sometimes it like I get a sudden electric shock in my breasts, it's quite alarming

DS has been cluster feeding all day so my tingly nipples are now also sore nipples

[TheScience]

My let down feels like this, sometimes it happens between feeds too. With DS1 I used to only feel it in the opposite breast. Do you leak when it happens?

[Greypuddle]

The best way I've found to describe it is the buzzing/tingling you get after you've had a nettle sting. I quite like it, actually.

[Ericadm]

I get this tingling feeling too. Only on between feeds, about an hour before next feed is due. I thought maybe is just the breast filling up again. I don't normally leak and I don't feel it during letdown just in between.