more milk in one breast than the other!

[pinkdaisy]

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone can tell me why i produce more milk in one breast than the other. I mean a significant amount! Thanks Lisa x

how do you know that you are? do you mean one leaks more? or one seems bigger or harder? how old is your dc?

Well, when I am expressing i get a lot less out of one breast than the other. what is a dc?

I think this is normal - out of my right boob I can get up to 6 ounces when I express and then the left one (what I like to think of as my rogue boob!) will give next to no milk when I express there. No idea at all why this is - I am right handed if this bares any relevance to anything!!

I had exactly the same because when I started to breastfeed my DD wouln't latch onto the left one properly and it took the midwife a week or so to tell me how to get around it but she always prefered to feed on the right?!? My right boob always produced more?!?

Mumsnet caused me to produce more milk in one breast than the other as I found putting ds3 to the left breast all the time made it easier to type with the right!

lol!

i have the same (my ds is 3 months) - right one full up to the brim, about 6oz, left one a measly 2 or 3 oz. i had mastitis in my left about 2 weeks after birth, and the pain meant i avoided using it for a week or so and no doubt that affected its production.

lol at rogue boobs and MN gettting the blame.

If you want to up supply.just feed more from that breast.

Also,what you can express is not necessarily an indicator of what the baby will get.Sucking much more effective than pumping.

Hi PinkD, I had the same, left breast much more! I think it was a combination of factors, DS had a stiff neck which meant feeding on the right hand side was harder for him, and feeding on the left was easier for me too, as it left me with my right hand free for typing/changing channels/turning pages etc.

I managed to even it up by consciously favouring the right boob - and DS's stiff neck got sorted which helped.