oversupply and poorly baby - HELP!!

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ds2 12 weeks is ill with bronchiolitis - hopefully we have passed the worst and he did not require hospital admission though we were in OOH/A&E with him most of the weekend.

He has been feeding a lot, which is good, little and often, but for some reason my right breast seems to have gone into overdrive?! Leaking and full and hard, kind of like how they go at the start? I had to change my pjs through the night as was soaked through which I haven't had to do since the first few weeks. I have always had quite a forceful let down on that side (well, this time round - with ds1 I never felt let down at all - weird) and now he seems not to like it as he is sniffly and so he prefers to feed from the other breast which obs is making things worse. I hand expressed in the shower this morning which helped a bit but now it is hard again and obvs I dont want to express too much in case it makes it worse.

Any advice?

Bumping!

My DD is 6 months so my supply is generally fine but she is just getting over bronchiolitis. The weekend when she was most ill my boobs went mad! It was like when my milk first came in.

Our bodies are amazing, I read that when baby is ill they produce different milk. I think this is probably why we then seem to have oversupply.

After a couple of days mind settled down again. The paed at the hospital said that feeding will help her get over the bronchiolitis so to offer every hour while she was awake, this probably helped too.

Thank you- how odd that it happened to you too- def like when he was just born but only in one side for me, but I think I've always had more milk on that side.