Tingling breasts and nipples.

[Writerwannabe83]

I have a 5 week old baby who I'm breastfeeding and for the last 3ish days, out of nowhere, my breasts and nipples have started tingling. It isn't a constant tingle, it comes and goes, but when it is occurring it can last for a few minutes and be quite sharp and uncomfortable. It then just dies off and everything will feel normal again.

Has anyone else experienced this at all?

Yes, this happened to me. I wonder if it was around the same time, or later...but I had sharp, short stabbing pains inside my breast that would come and go between feeds. Like little pinpricks.
Lasted about a week then disappeared. Maybe was boobs adjusting, doesn't supply regulate at that time?

I think this is just your 'let-down', isn't it? Your milk coming in. I certainly had it for the first few months, until my baby started reducing feeds, but you're a long way from that yet. Don't worry, anyway. Perfectly normal, as far as I'm concerned!

It's driving me a little bit mad but I'm glad to hear it's normal. Sometimes it like I get a sudden electric shock in my breasts, it's quite alarming

DS has been cluster feeding all day so my tingly nipples are now also sore nipples

My let down feels like this, sometimes it happens between feeds too. With DS1 I used to only feel it in the opposite breast. Do you leak when it happens?

The best way I've found to describe it is the buzzing/tingling you get after you've had a nettle sting. I quite like it, actually.

I get this tingling feeling too. Only on between feeds, about an hour before next feed is due. I thought maybe is just the breast filling up again. I don't normally leak and I don't feel it during letdown just in between.