Older women. Can you still remember what the milk let down feels like?

[SequinShagger]

I just had a twinge that reminded me of it. Only remember labour if I get an upset stomach with cramps.

can you remember either feeling?

Youngest is 15. I can't really remember what labour felt like or the let down reflex.

For me it used to feel a bit like pins and needles in my boobs.

It's sort of a juzzy feeling, tingly and weird (unfortunately I got oral migraines with it after a few weeks - hence the dislike).

@Blueysparentsputmetoshame
a tingly feeling that for me starts at the sides near my arm pits, then moves down towards nipples, then the release of milk. And a real desire to feed.

I can almost feel it again just thinking about it - let down. But not labour pains, I only remember the intense tiredness after a long labour and a dull ache in my lower back but not the pain of contractions.

I only stopped feeding a few weeks ago and I don't remember this at all!? Maybe I have numb boobs

I remember it; mine are 21/23 now! But it doesn't affect me viscerally at all any more, but I hate it. But, for a good few years after mine passed into early childhood, I couldn't be around a howling baby. I didn't feel a need to run to it, to comfort it; I just needed it to stop.

I recall having to explain to DH that his response to our babies crying was 'Oh, he needs something'; whereas mine was 'OhGogOhGodOhGod! I need to do something to stop this'.

His was intellectual; mine was hormonal.

For me, 'let down' was after between maybe 20 seconds and a minute (I bf for 12 months with both mine, so the timing changed), a sudden, short-lived weird tingly almost pain, a 'drawing down' almost pain, a bit fizzy. A tiny bit shuddery.

Not especially pleasant but good in that you knew your boobs were pumping out the necessary!

Sounds like you had DMER too xx

I remember the milk let down feeling well even though it was 17 years ago. Occasionally I get a twinge that feels like the start of it.

Labour not as much, mines was induced (and long), but I remember the feeling of the gas (and the 3 circus men with black handlebar moustache in the very tall top Hats).

Yes even though I last fed a baby 24 years ago. I fed all my kids for a year which was the length of time you were advised to feed them at the time. I couldn't stand the smell either. I don't know how people feed them for a long time. I did a year because that's what you were meant to do but once the kids are a year I had had enough.

Yes, and it's 21 years since I breast fed. I also remember early labour pains, although not the later ones, and also how it feels when your baby first moved inside you 🥰

I am still breastfeeding a 15 month old and I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

My let down was fast and forceful in the early weeks and months but I have no idea what sensation people are describing.

Yes, like it was yesterday. My youngest child is late 20s.

Yes, I remember both.

Letdown was like a wave of relaxation from my neck down.

I thought about labour when I had the screaming shits recently 😬

Razor blades coming out of my boobs. Was that it?

Both.

The let down tingle very much. Most of my labour was back pain, just excruciating and feeling like my back was going to break clean in two pain so holding on to something to brace against. I had really sore hands afterwards because of that. Whenever I twinge my back I remember the pain and weirdly I’m sensitive to massages on certain parts of my back now / despite there being nothing wrong with me!

Yes! And the feeling of the babies moving around too. Wonderful memories (both teen/almost teen now!)

@Fordian
‘I remember it; mine are 21/23 now! But it doesn't affect me viscerally at all any more, but I hate it. But, for a good few years after mine passed into early childhood, I couldn't be around a howling baby. I didn't feel a need to run to it, to comfort it; I just needed it to stop.

I recall having to explain to DH that his response to our babies crying was 'Oh, he needs something'; whereas mine was 'OhGogOhGodOhGod! I need to do something to stop this'.

His was intellectual; mine was hormonal.’

I am exactly like this, you’ve described it really well. I’m still incredibly jangly around crying babies, but my youngest is only 5. When Salam Hayek was in the press for feeding someone else’s baby I could totally imagine that that could have happened on an instinctive level (not a planned way).

Yes! Like razor blades coming out of my nipples, but relief. Very Painful relief, those first few seconds.

Labour pain, can’t really remember.

That very, very newborn cry gives me a slight sense of panic.

@NC30112021 snap.

Yes - my letdown feeling was more of an emotion than a physical sensation. I felt like I was plunging into a pit of despair. Fortunately it was only fleeting - lasted for less than a minute. Wasn't so bad when I had been breastfeeding a few months.

Both I can remember. I've had 4 children and I can recall each labour pain (very different) I could not put them into words apart from pain in back/front. Though

I can not remember one minute of labour pain but my youngest is 22 and I still get that milk ache.
It is a very primal response and it feels very poignant to me.

Yes! Fairly often I get the sensation. I often have to show people how to hand express and occasionally use my own (clothed) boob as a demo and sometimes I really get that feeling strongly. I don’t actually let down tho, which is often a surprise and the feeling was so real. Youngest is only 7 so it wasn’t decades ago tho.

Can’t remember any of the sensations of labour except the intensity of the feeling in my bumhole with number 2. Every particle in the world was focused there for about twenty minutes and I can still feel it!