Kathy,
What you suggest:


 She could just nurse
>on the slower producing side for several feeds and then just express the
>other side a minimal amount for relief.

This is exactly what a client of mine did a few years ago.  It took some
time and fiddling with but ultimately she ended up using the previously
overproducing side for only 2 or 3 widely spaced feeds over the course of 24
hours.  The lower producing side was used for all other feeds.  She started
out with all feeds in a 4 hr. period on one breast. She'd pump off as little
as possible to relieve tension and hard lumps in the non-used breast only as
needed.  Gradually finding it best to use the over-producer less often. And
very gradually she found she needed to pump it less often, got smaller
amounts, and then none.
This was with her second baby. With the first she suffered frequent breast
infections and the baby was very fussy. She contacted me when her second
baby was less than 2 weeks old and she'd already had a breast infection and
seemed bursting with milk on one side, especially.  I taught her to feel her
breasts almost hourly to determine what she needed to do.  Any time she got
too firm she enlisted family support to be able to lie down for some hours
and literally get those breast elevated.  She never had another infection
after she learned to "read" her breasts and figure out what she needed to do
at any given moment.

Anne Grider, IBCLC, Private Practice, Marietta, GA
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