Help, DD is nearly 8 weeks now and BF has been going great up till now (she is our second and has taken to it well), but the last few nights I have had trouble with getting very engorged/lumpy boobs during the night - especially the right one. She is only feeding once or twice in the night now but sometimes I get woken up by my boobs getting quite uncomfortable before she is even hungry (it's not a problem during the day though normally).
Now the right boob seems to have gone completely mad, it is really full and uncomfortable even though I wouldn't normally be feeding DD again until at least 1.30 or so - she usually has a dreamfeed before I go to bed, but we have been giving a bottle of expressed milk for that, as she won't take it from me when she's asleep. So no idea why my body thinks I suddenly need loads of milk now... and why it's all on one side!
To make things worse, at the last few feeds today it seemed like DD was a bit "off" that side (even before it got so engorged), she did take some but kept fussing and crying when on that side. So that probably hasn't helped. But I'm not sure what to do now to fix it - if I express too much or keep giving her that side first, I'm worried it'll just encourage even more milk on that side? Can anyone advise the best way to "calm down" that breast without encouraging it to get even more lopsided? Thank you...