As long as we are talking one or both breasts, let me throw in a questions about MER.  I am educating mothers before the baby's birth and immediately post partum. I would like to give them advanced warning about "let-down" feelings since, for some mothers, it is quite intense and they can mistake it for a painful latch. 

 Although the MER happens in the first days post-partum (cramping is generally felt by mothers who have had babies before, not especially by first time moms), mothers do not feel MER as the pinching, tingling sensation (if they are going to feel these), or leaking from the other nipple until the milk production increases. Has anyone studied the MER?  Why is it that those pinching or tingling sensations are *not* felt in the first couple of days after delivery?

Terriann Shell


      

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