I gave up breastfeeding my almost 3-year-old a week ago. He was only feeding through the night at that point.
After about the first 24 hours my boobs felt ever so slightly tingly, then that went away, but now when I press one of my boobs (the one he had a strong preference for, and that has therefore been significantly larger than the other one for nearly 3 years!!) there is a hard bit inside, like when I used to get engorged, but it's right near the back towards my armpit.
I was always rubbish at expressing, even using a hospital pump I could only get pitiful amounts, while ebf - ing him no problem at all up to 6 months, and he continued to be a milk monster for ages. I've tried expressing this week but absolutely nothing has come out at all.
I have no idea what to do about this! Will the milk just... reabsorb into my body? Or will it go septic and give me an abcess or something like that? I can't imagine the old 'stand in a hot shower brushing your boob with a wide toothed-comb' will work, because I have tried really hard to express and there is nothing - and the lump is quite far inside my boob, it's not easy to squeeze it.
Help!