Where does the milk go after stopping breast feeding?

[SunnyD123]

Stopped breast feeding 6 month old on Tuesday and am still massively engorged. Had dropped to morning only feed so thought it may not be so painful. I was wrong! I have been reading about how long it takes and can't seem to find a clear answer. I can barely hold my baby as cant bare any pressure. Reluctant to express as just want it over with and dont want to encourage milk production. Can anyone share their experience of when they deflated and where does it go!?

Best thing to do would be to express a little by hand for comfort and to avoid mastitis. Your ability to produce milk doesn't ever really go once you have bf and milk stays in the ducts for many many years. But with time your body will get the message to slow down. Remember that at 6 months your body still expects to need to produce a lot of milk for a young baby and it takes a while to work out what's going on. In bf terms its early days, so there is a tendency still to overproduce if you restrict nursing. So hand express a little for comfort until the engorgement passes.