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Painful breast, milk blisters and now engorgement

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spydie · 13/08/2018 04:25

DD is almost 3 weeks old and ebf, but I'm having issues with one breast. She feeds fine on the left side and tends to be satisfied quite quickly, but on my right breast she always seems to feed for longer and feeding is more uncomfortable, despite having latch checked and apparently fine.

Had a milk blister on right nipple just over a week ago. Managed to hand express and got the horrible little **er out, and feeding on that side got less painful again. It then came back a couple of days ago Sad and after much massaging, feeding, heat, and even breaking the skin with a needle it seems to have gone again and feeding is now comfortable. However whilst it's got better, I'm now getting really engorged on that side at night, but fine during the day. DD is feeding roughly 2 hourly, and due to the most recent blister I had been trying to make sure she feeds from that side at every feed to stop it from coming back. During the day it's fine, and I can skip a feed with no issues, but at night I'm waking up after 2 hours and it hurts, and I'm also finding a painful hard area in breast (always same place) that I also had with both blisters.

I'm having to pump that side when I get up in the morning to relieve the discomfort. I don't mind so much as I'm trying to gradually build up a freezer stash so DH can give her the odd bottle when I am out and about, but I don't know if this is making the issue worse.

Any ideas though on how I can relieve this or whats going on? Im terrified of getting mastitis tbh. Once she's feeding it's fine until I've slept again for another couple of hours, and also during the day it's fine.

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FranticallyPeaceful · 13/08/2018 13:27

It’s definitely making it worse. The more you pump the more you make. I would stop pumping.
I had sepsis from mastitis and afterwards I was told not to pump but instead to encourage leaking. Don’t wear a bra ever when you’re in the house and during a letdown gently push the milk from the tops/edges of the beast out towards the nipple - you’ll be surprised how much you can get out. I was also suggested I bought breast shells and they’re fantastic for collecting the milk when I do this

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