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Four week old baby and I’m slightly obsessed with boobs
By ella | February 11, 2006
My body (and by body I mean boobs but somehow it just seemed wrong to start a post with the word boobs) is working overtime producing sustenance for my son. As a result I have industrial size knockers (lovely English term) full of milk. All the time.
I also have the world’s strongest let down reflex that seems to occur whenever I think about my baby or hear him cry or whenever I think about any baby or hear any baby cry, resulting in the floodgates opening (I bet you’re glad you read this post, aren’t you?). But most of all it occurs when I think about my boobs and how full they are of milk waiting for my baby. All well and good right? because a baby needs milk and my industrial size son requires so. much. milk. Last week he put on a pound instead of the traditional half-pound. It’s like feeding two babies!
The trouble with this is that approximately five minutes after my baby has fed, I am locked and loaded again, awaiting the next feed and I am acutely aware of how full they are all the time. Thinking about this triggers the let-down reflex. Then my top is soaked. No problem except this seems to be occuring with alarming frequency when the grocery-delivery man comes to the door. Or when my son’s pre-school teacher greets us at school.
So you get through the sickness of pregnancy, the embarrassment and indignity of childbirth, the hassle of all that bleeding, the pain of the haemorroids and then, as the icing on the cake, dripping boobs. Anybody that does this whole thing more than once must be completely crazy (that’ll be me then).
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It must be temporary, right? I had the same thing for a while, but now my boobs hardly ever leak even though I’m still breastfeeding.
I was the same way when I had my son — 20 years ago!
Back then, they made those pads you could put into your bra that kept all that leaking from becoming visible. I loved them!!
Do they still make those?
Congrats on the baby!! He’s adorable!
Oh I hated the leaking. Horribly embarrasing. I pumped after the kids nursed so I could get rid of that fullness. Sorry to hear it, but I guess it is just something we have to go through!
I wish I had that problem! I’m nursing my second and my boobies never leak and after my skinny first child, all eyes are on my boobies wondering if they SHOULD be leaking.