While difficulties exist like latching problems, blocked ducts, figuring out when to start pumping and mastitis, you are also dealing with normal, sometimes frustrating nursing phases.
Breastfeeding at birth and in the first few weeks is likely the toughest stage of breastfeeding. It can seem like you’re never going to make it work. But if you can make it past these first few weeks, it will become SO much easier.
Imagine. At first, your tiny infant got about a teaspoon of colostrum a day and had to work REALLY hard to get it too. Suddenly, your mature milk is in and now your baby has a river of breast milk coming at her.
You might experience engorgement at various times throughout the first few months of breastfeeding:
-when your milk comes in
-when a growth spurt abruptly ends
-when your baby misses a feed