Stopped breastfeeding - ouch!

[Plibble]

The title says it all really.

Yesterday was my first day with no expressing or feeding and today I have the worlds hardest left breast. The day before I had expressed once to produce one 6oz bottle, so thought my breasts would be able to cope with this!

It even hurts when I pick my DD up!

Is there anything I can do to relieve this?

To make matters worse, my daughter has a very snotty cold and I feel that if I was still breastfeeding she might not have it. It's pretty irrelevant (since I have to give up to return to work) but it isn't making me feel any better!

Yes, eat LOADS of Fresh Sage. This herb naturally drys up breast milk or you could buy a potent Sage Tincture from here here

Thanks - I will try to get some later.
In the meantime it's a hot shower for me!

i stopped last saturday plibble. cold turkey, & although dd is 19 months she was a pretty ardent breastfeeder. by sunday i was in agony, my boobs were scarily lumpy & really really hurt. i took neurofen which helped a bit. they have got gradually better, & are fine today. a tiny bit sore if jabbed repeatedly, but pretty much normal. i did try & to hand express on sunday night, but it didn't work anyway... savoy cabbage leaves are meant to be good, inside your bra.

I stopped last wednesday - cold turkey too........ boobs swelled, hurt like crazy for a day or so .... now still big, and lumpy... and leaking milk occasionally. They hurt if I press them but not continuously.

Saw HV today and she said not to worry about bumps yet but to keep an eye on them.

Plibble - my DS has had numerous colds whilst BF so i would remain FF, and do you really want to go through the pain again!

Don't worry - I'm not starting up again - I was just feeling a bit sorry for us both, what with me feeling like I had hot rocks in my bra and her with snot all over her face...!

I ended up hand expressing a little bit from each breast earlier today, but that was this morning and they only hurt a little now and both feel soft, thank God. I'm going to be on the paracetomol tomorrow, I think.

I really hope it settles down quickly as am back to work soon and would hate to upset my work colleagues by showing up with breasts resembling weapons of mass destruction.

TIS REALLY hard isn@t it> my computer doing weird things like putting arrows not dots when press full stop key

mine are still big a week on but not as big as last thursday! wish they stayed big and firm but getting more squidgy by the day!