When did your boobs stop being engorged at night?

[Lizbiz89]

Just that really. Every night at 2am I'm waking with engorged breasts. Doesn't matter if ds goes a little longer in the night I'm awake because of my sore boobs. Does this improve? I really don't think I can continue to bf if this is going to continue every night for the night 11 months.

How frequently is he feeding? I was engorged until he was around 18 months but less engorged once we night weaned. He fed constantly and I expressed while at work until 18 months.

@mishmased he feeds every 2-3 hours but at night he can go down at 10.30ish and be asleep until gone 2. Very thankful for this stretch but I can't say I'm benefiting from it at all as I always wake feeling so uncomfortable.

If he keeps up his sleep it will ease in a couple of days. Enjoy the sleep, wear a supportive bra and it should ease soon.

I think I stopped feeling engorged at about 6-8 weeks. I would have periods of occasionally feeling engorged if DD dropped a night feed or something. We're 10 months in now and haven't had it for many months.

How old is your little on? Milk supply tends to regulate around 6 weeks give or take so tends to be better then for long stretches if they consistently do them! I can leave my 10 month old 6/7 hours during the day now with only a slight leak and full feeling 😊 And I remember at the start anything over 4 hours would of been unthinkable at the start 😂

Around 3-4 weeks but that was when my daughter started feeding 5 times a night.
When I stop breastfeeding it took 10-14 days for the engorgement overnight to stop so I would say roughly this time line for track for other drops in demand. During the time I kept a muslin near by and hand expressed just to get rid of the discomfort. It only took a minute or two to get relief

Thanks for the replies. He's 4 weeks (5 weeks tomorrow). I will be so relieved for the engorgement to stop at night. Bfing has been going really well apart from that. Finding it really hard to get any decent sleep when my boobs are so sore. He goes 2-3 hours in the day and that's his longest stretch which is probably why my boobs aren't happy.

There's a really good chance it will improve over the next couple of weeks in that case.
Gentle express for comfort will help but avoid going beyond comfort as your body will still think the milk is needed.
I did this during the day and it might be fiddly at night but I popped a haakaa like collection pump. I put it on and once the milk came through I popped the seal so it then just collected milk that came out rather than is sucking it out. It you left it suction on it could again making your boobs think milk is needed

Gosh apologies @Lizbiz89 I thought your baby is 11 months 🤦‍♀️

When I gave up breastfeeding at 10 months. It did get less from around 3-4 months though.

Thanks for the replies. I have actually noticed it improve slightly the last couple of days. Can't say the same for my sleep though 🤣🤣🤣