How long for breasts to dry up?

[Mrbumpoid]

I am going into day 5 and my milk came in yesterday. Currently they are sore and heavy. I am bottle feeding and would like to know people's experience of how long it took them to dry up and how it was each day?

I am using cabbage leaves, not touching them, staying away from warm shower water. At the moment I am not wearing a supportive bra bc too uncomfortable to wear something tight.

I have also had a fever and cluster headache.

I bf until day 7. My breasts were back to “normal” after 24 hrs. I think I took 2 paracetamol.

I was told to wear the tightest bra I could find and they kind of deflated after 5 days so to me it sounds weird that that is when your milk started coming in. Yes, it was uncomfortable, but it was just a few days. Can you ask your HV if there is more you can do?

About 5 days I think to be fully back to normal, are you keeping your cabbage leaves in the fridge?

Completely normal for milk to come in on day 4/5. Nothing weird about it.

Keep an eye on that fever, OP. Mastitis can come on very quickly.

My boy was in nicu and i sort of gradually stopped pumping as much without realising i was. I pumped once of twice to relieve soreness because i thought i was building up to mastitis and it sorted it. 5 years on though ive never stopped producing colostrum 🤷‍♀️ #2 should be okay for supply im guessing