Lynnette Hafken, IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>:

# The thing I don't understand is that when the milk stops coming, the
areola feels very dense and swollen, and a minute of resting or RPS
allows milk to start coming again.  So I feel that there must be more
milk in there and the pump is somehow preventing it from coming,
rather than helping it come. #


Sometimes, if mom is pressing the edge of the flange too tightly
against her breast, the milk ducts are pressed too hard (they
flatten), and the milk flow will slow down or stop.

But it sounds to me this mom probably doesn't really have more milk in
there - after this many days, and no engorgement, no nothing.

Sanna-Mari
bf support group leader since -00 / Imetyksen tuki ry
Finland, Scandinavia

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