Milk Bleb advice
This morning I noticed one of my boobs was more engorged than normal. Got my LO to feed on it but he became instantly frustrated as he couldn’t get anything out. I can see I have a bleb and it’s making it very difficult for milk to flow out. I have been able to get a tiny bit out throughout the day by hand expressing but pumping and getting my baby to feed on it is not helping. I’m really engorged and in pain. I don’t know what to do. Has anyone got any advice?
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I had a milk bleb that would not budge for about 4 weeks, it finally went after putting lansinoh lanolin nipple cream on after every feed/pump and it softened the skin loads After a very warm shower the skin sort of exfoliated away when drying with a towel and the blockage came out xx
I tried every natural remedy when I got one but nothing worked and it became so painful, so I used a hot sterile pin and popped it, then used my electric pump to gently drain xx
Warm water and epsom salts in a haaka was the only thing which worked for me, had one for weeks but went in 3 days using the haaka
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The thing that helped me was warm compresses on the nipple and it finally comes away with some gentle massaging. Other than that I just kept feeding baby off the good boob, and once semi satisfied (so they weren't starving and frustrated) and get baby to suckle on the blocked one which took a couple of days of being consistent. Keep going xx