Good Evening All, Have a question for our lawyers, and a related question for those of you with more knowledge about the internal workings of the breast than I. A mom I am working with had an unpleasant happening last night. Her ex-boyfriend, and father of her 3 yr old and 7wk old, came to her house drunk and got physical with her. I don't know the full extent of the physical assault, but she did tell me that he grabbed both of her breasts and squeezed really hard. She is now in a lot of pain and is having a hard time getting any milk out. She can't BF the baby because it hurts, and pumping is also painful (she has only pumped twice and it hurt for the first 5 minutes and then slowly tapered off.) We discussed the problem of possible engorgement due to lack of milk removal, also possible blocked milk ducts because of the trauma. She is unable to gently feel her breasts for lumps because they hurt so badly. She says there is no blood coming out in the milk she was able to get out. I told her she should go to the Dr. Just a bit of past history on this mom: Her baby was 5 weeks prem, and has had a hard time learning to BF. Just within the last 6 days baby was starting to refuse the bottle in favor of moms breast. Mom is having a hard time coping (she is 19 and single w/2 kids) and she has at times left the baby with a friend for a couple days to regroup, but didn't pump as she should have so has been having a hard time keeping her milk supply stable and up enough to feed the baby. She is afraid of losing her milk supply, so is trying as best she can. We just started the baby on an SNS last week because she wouldn't stay at breast long. A before and after BF weight check verified that baby was not sucking effectively enough to get a good milk transfer. The SNS seems to have helped her get stronger, and stay at breast longer doing more effective sucking. There have been other issues with this dyad, and mom has been under considerable stress. Now for the questions: 1) What is the possible damage to the internal anatomy of the breast and what possible problems should we expect/look for? Is it possible for what the ex-boyfriend to permanently compromise this moms milk supply? 2) What measures can we take to help alleviate her pain? Obviously she has serious bruising internally. She did report a large vein onthe top of one breast that looked as if it was going to pop. It was not there before the injury. Comments on this too, please. 3) For our lawyers: Besides assault, if this mom does lose her milk production because of this injury can she sue the man responsible, and if so can you tell me the proper terminology to use in pressing charges? Please help, this is a crisis situation and we need help ASAP! TIA TIA TIA! Jay She who is sick of abusive a-------es and thinks they should all be shot.