what does your let down feel like?

[skybie]

hi ladies, sorry if this is too personal im just interested in what other peoples let down feels like.
mine feels like 1000 needles going into my nipple, doesnt last long but its sooo unpleasant!

[sloane]

i've never really felt it at all!

[Lulu]

Hot, full boobies all of a sudden and pins and needles!

[Olive]

pretty much what lulu said! full feeling followed by pain, only last 45-60 secs though.
i never felt a letdown with DD1 but i certainly feel them this time

[~Trish~]

What Lulu said!

[Ryatha]

mines kinda sharp pulling sensation, stronger in the one not being fed on... I usually get it about twice a feed, and if she is asleep and due for a feed... that is a bit more ouchie

[skybie]

oh good, i was worried the painfullness wasnt normal!!
olive- i take it its not one of those things that stops if ur still getting it?

[Indadhanu]

Yep same as Lulu, pins and needles, tingley. The feeling stopped at 4ish months after I got mastitis.

[*becstar*]

Mine was the same....pins and needles for a few seconds. It's not nice but then it's good to know that it's working

[CrazyLady]

I only got a tingle but apparently I'm strange. LC thought I was crazy

[MantaRay]

skybie, many mums find that they stop feeling their let down after the first few weeks. But it is different for everyone.

[Sterla]

I only sometimes feel my let down - and it feels like sharp tingles at the top of my boobs. I wouldn't call it painful, but it's not a pleasant sensation either.

[mbear]

It's not nice but then it's good to know that it's working

....im like that too....

[~Kaz~]

Mine is more like pressure going down my breast into the nipple itms? And its stronger in the side not being fed from. I only ever get one per feed. It's not like pins and needles at all and not painful or unpleasant.....just weird

MR - I was the opposite - I could never feel it for the first 3-4 months and now I can

[{sarah}]

Mine always felt like my boobs suddenly got full & then it was like a bruise been pushed on, then pins & needles. We stopped feeding at 15 months & I was still feeling letdown until the day she stopped. I would also know when miss was due for a feed because almost to the minute I would start getting a letdown, that was great fun when I was bridesmaid at my friends wedding & didn't feed for an entire day!

[Glamourcide]

Does it sound really crazy that I actually kind of enjoyed feeling a big letdown? Mine was exactly the same as described by you girls - hot, hard, pins and needles, and pain. But I actually kind of liked the feeling, maybe it was a reassurance that bubs was getting a neckful of milk and my body was working as nature intended? I stopped feeling it a few weeks ago though and now I wonder if DD2 is getting enough milk because my boobs are definitely smaller (I've lost a bit of weight and my weekly measure-in on Tuesday tells me my boobies have shrunk a good 2 inches, eek! DH better buy me new ones when bub stops using them as feedbags, there'll be nothing left!) and they never feel full anymore. But she seems happy, so I guess they're still in good working order... I just miss that initial 'gush' when DD2 latched on and settled in for a 3-course meal

[Shanti]

I never feel my let down!!! Only know if she's pulled off at the same time and milk is all over her face haha

[Heaven]

Kaz I'm the same as you!! I never felt it at the start! Don't think I started feeling it until she was about 3 months old. Mine doesn't feel like pins and needles. It feels like my boobs get REALLY full all of a sudden and could burst, LOL.

I STILL get them all the time, if I think about feeding her, if she's due for a feed, sometimes for no reason. I don't see it stopping any time soon. I still even get engorged at times and soak through lots of breast pads *sigh*