sting-y leaky boobs - normal?

[olivo]

don't rememebr this with DD1 - keep having momnets where my boobs really sting and then when i look, they are leaking. is this normal? i know its normal to leak (even at 6 weeks?) but the stinging actually hurts.

reassurance please.....

[SardineQueen]

I have a strong let down pain for the first few weeks which feels like a sharp stinging hurty pain - and I leak a lot too...

I think it sounds normal TBH and hopefully your breasts will settle down very soon

[olivo]

thanks SQ, hadn't realised it was to do with let down. i do have strong let down - DD usually chokes and has to be taken off and i catch the milk in a muslin for a few seconds before putting her back on.

people must think i'm very odd, as i keep checking down my bra with each sting!

[mrsjuan]

This is exactly what my let down feels like. Very embarrassing when I was sitting in the hairdressers the first time I'd ever really left DD and thinking about her - I felt that familiar stinging sensation, remembered I'd stopped wearing breast pads, looked in the mirror and quickly pulled the towel round me!

[olivo]

mrsj.
i am going to have to investigate washable pads as i am getting through loads!
i just can't believe how much it hurts! roll on settling down!

[SardineQueen]

If washable not your cup of tea, I have found the lansinoh ones and the tommee tippee ones to be best at containing things