Ds3 is 3 weeks and 5 days and I am feeling REALLY sore today - it's not sore/cracked nipples as they are quite comfortable, rather further back in the breast and higher up. Any suggestions? They feel quite hot when I haven't fed for a little bit, but not after a feed.
As some history, I've struggled with b/feeding with the previous 3 children - with ds1 I feel the hospital gave me poor advice, and in those days(!) they didn't weigh until a week to 10 days old, and his weight had plummeted. I never really felt I had very much milk with him, although I did manage to feed him for over a year, albeit with formula top-ups. Dd put on tiny amounts of weight, but didn't lose enough to warrant them being worried about her - again I never felt that feeling of 'milk coming in' that is talked about, but I did manage to exclusively b/feed her. Ds2 again lost a LOT of weight and then messed around not putting on weight. I did LOTS of expressing to give EBM top ups (with lots of help from tiktok and hunker on here!), and eventually he did start to put on weight, but again slowly, and milk AGAIN seemed quite hard to come by.
So ds3 has been very different - he fed like a DEMON for the first 3 or 4 days - literally not stopping for breath. He lost a HUGE amount of weight (he was 10lb12, and went down to 9lb7), but unlike the others has managed to start putting it back on, and at his last weigh in had gained 220g in just over a week, which I have NEVER had with any of the others. So I suppose my question is, could this discomfort be simply having a bit more milk available? With all the others it's been a case of squeezing every last drop out, and it does feel different this time!
Thanks - any suggestions gratefully received!!!