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

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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?

I found breast feeding easy I was incredibly lucky, could have made a fortune as a wet nurse so this may reflect how I remember it. I remember it as pleasant, a whoosh of something lovely. A bit like when I drink coffee and I get a rush of caffeine that feels lovely and cosy. An incredible feeling of well being.

@ferneytorro I would get the wave of calmness on actual feeding. It is a lovely feeling. For me letdown was the tingly feeling before, sometimes it could almost sting.

I get it sometimes when I’m away from my kids and missing them. A kind of mild stinging sensation. Youngest is 13. I kind of like it - it makes me feel nostalgic.

I was never in labour but yes I still remember let down. In my mind it always made a sound like you hear in the plane when starting the steep descent.

Yes, remember it well and can almost feel it just from thinking about it. The tingly rushing feeling, and also the despairing sadness overwhelming me for a few seconds, but then it would pass and the actual feeding would bring relief.

Soon after I stopped BF my youngest, she had to go into hospital for a few days with an infection. On the baby ward there was a very young baby on his own, who had been removed from his parents and had a head injury (I don't know the details of how or why). He had lots of attention from nurses and social workers but OMG. When he was lying there on his own I would get terrible let down and start leaking. And absolutely desperately yearned to pick him up and feed him. I'm tearing up thinking about it. Of course I had to leave him alone but the primal urge to feed a baby who didn't have his mum was so powerful.

Yes. Haven't breastfed for 27 years. It was many years before I stopped feeling a tingle every time a random baby cried.

I'll second this.

And then a wonderful, all-pervading sensation of peace and relaxation as the milk flowed*. It's an intensely sensual sensation - very relaxing indeed. But I used to have a jug of water next to me because the minute it started to flow I got desperately thirsty!

*once their teeth came in and the little buggers started to give experimental nips it wasn't quite so "Nirvana"! 😀

Not really, but what I do remember, from when I first felt it when BFing, was how it was exactly like some feeling I occasionally had before I ever even had a baby or was pregnant - a feeling of longing for something, I knew not what.
So evidently a hormonal rush of whatever it was.

Just mentioning it here gives me the twinge. My baby is 25.
Labour, not at all.

I bf my 4 babies but youngest now a teen so a long time ago.

About 5/6 years ago for about a year I had a strong let down sensation regularly. Doc said it was probably hormonal. I was in peri at the time.

It was a lovely memory relived and I still found it a pleasant experience even all these years later.

It's never happened to me being around other babies though, not even my grandbabies.