Breastfeeding while pregnant... Ow when will the pain stop?

[ChazzerChaser]

I'm breastfeeding my 2 and a bit year old to sleep whilst nearly 6 weeks pregnant. The pain is getting worse and worse! When might it ease off? Please don't say in about 34 weeks...

What pain?

The pain of sensitive nipples.

I feed my nearly two year old dd to sleep and I'm 16 weeks pregnant. I'm still quite sensitive to be honest, it has not got any worse though, if that helps

She used to wake in the night for milk, say 3 or 4 times but now usually just once so I'm wondering how much milk she is actually getting!

Thanks that does help. I'm imagining it getting worse and worse but if it stays at this level I'll survive.

I'm hoping he'll start to feed less too as I get further along, at the moment it's often 2/3 times in the night too.

It's a combination of sensitive nips from the hormones and also your supply dropping (from the same hormones).

Babies tend to make their latch more shallow when the flow of milk is slower. Try compressions - if anything it will at least get the milk out more quickly and shorten the feed.

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

It did get somewhat better in the second tri although by that time I'd had to stop my DS1 from feeding in the mornings as I just couldn't take the combination of the nipple discomfort and the morning sickness. DS1 went on to self wean when I was about 7 month pregnant, I don't he'd been getting much, if any, milk and one day he just decided he'd finished. With the arrival of DS2 he's shown some renewed interest but he can't really latch anymore. I psyched myself up for tandem nursing but didn't need to in the end. Hope it gets better for you soon

Thanks. I'm hoping for a self wean too.

That makes sense re hormones and latch. Will see if I can work on the latter. Thanks

I bf my dd until I was 7 months pregnant. It was painful all the way through and I really don't think I had much milk. Dd kept saying 'mummy milk bad' (but then still asking to feed!). I weaned her just after her second birthday as I couldn't cope with the pain any more. We were down to one feed just before bed for 5 mins, timed on my phone. She had been feeding 3 times in the day and maybe 1-2 times in the night at the start of my pregnancy. She has talked a lot about since ds has been born but hasn't actually asked for a bf. Like pp I was all set to tandem feed but weaning was the way to go for us in the end. I was really sad when we finally stopped as I had hoped she would self wean and I was upset I'd pushed her along a bit but I was crying with the pain at every feed.

Thanks for your honesty. Makes me realise I perhaps need to give it some more thought rather than just wishing it away.