thread: Is this normal??

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    Question Is this normal??

    Ok, my milk came in on day 2-3.
    Majorly engorged, as I expected...

    But now its going. I'm not engorged anymore... Its only day 6...
    Is this a 4th baby/body knows what its doing type thing? I was expecting to be full for weeks at least. My boobs are soft as they were before...

    There still seems to be plenty of milk, but not as much as I thought so early on.

    Someone just reassure me?? Please?

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    I actually never had that full, hard, engorged milk coming in boobs that others talk about. But I also had no milk issues, there was plenty there! So what you're describing sounds normal to me, hopefully someone else will pop in!

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    Sounds normal to me!

    Keep checking for bumps and lumps and make sure you are draining each breast to protect yourself against mastitis, but all sounds like bubs is doing a fine job drinking!
    Engorgment is not really a good thing... They will be engorged and hard maybe if by some mirale bubs sleeps for 5 hours straight and you cna feed But otherwise, your body will regulate its production as per bubs feeds.


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    Hmm, ok, cool. I know engorgemtnt isn't great, I'm just sure I remember my milk took weeks, if not months to settle last time, so I didn't think it'd be this quick this time around.

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    so I didn't think it'd be this quick this time around.
    it's cause your an old hand no
    seriously though I was never engorged and never really full but obviously had heaps of milk cause he was a chubba baby Obviously she is feeding regularly? and seems to be feeding well? planty of wet nappies and seems fairly happy?
    Sounds like everything is going well.

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    Completly normal babe after 3 or 4 babies.....

    By the time Harmony came along, I was engorged just the once, when my milk actually came in, and that was it..... she fed for 18mnths....

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    Cool, thanks guys
    She's definetely getting plenty... she put on 10 grams, rather than lose weight in hossy, lol.
    Feel much better about my almost normal sized boobs now