One overactive breast?

[wanderinggypsy]

Anyone ever hear of overactive letdown in one breast only? My left is well behaved. It produces milk but rarely gets engorged. My right, however, wants to have a let-down every time I look at the baby!!

Is this totally alien or do any of the rest of you have one overactive boob?

Thanks!

[MEcatlady17]

While I think I have OALD to some degree in both breasts, one breast is WAY stronger and has more oversupply issues and the other is more manageable. I mentioned it to the LC when I was getting support at the beginning and she said it wasn't weird at all and actually pretty common.

[judybean]

Originally Posted by wanderinggypsy

Anyone ever hear of overactive letdown in one breast only? My left is well behaved. It produces milk but rarely gets engorged. My right, however, wants to have a let-down every time I look at the baby!!

This is me exactly!!! Even down to the same sides!

And, I fear, the cycle is totally enabled and made worse because the right side will feel so engorged at times that I *have* to have Hazel nurse off that side -- regardless of which side was last... so she probably ends up on that side more, which just makes matters worse!

Silly boobies. It's getting to where I look physically lopsided (at least *I* can tell that the right one looks totally bigger and fluffier than the left one!)

[ps4624]

Me, too! My left side is perfectly civilized and my right side is so badly behaved! I have to make sure my DD always nurses off of the right side at least 2x as much as the left, or I feel like I'm going to explode!

[Sharon, RN]

Me, too.

Except it's my left breast that's an overachiever!

It's better now that the baby is almost 7 months old, but for a while there, it was like, uh, "Old Faithful."

I'll let you use your imagination.

lol

:-)