one boob bigger and more sore...

[adon]

than the other. so i went thru the engorgement stage. 2 huge boulders on my chest....ouch! well now my left boob is stll large and sore while my right is back to "normal". they are both leaking pretty well....is the one sore and big because i am not nursing enough on that side, or because i'm nursing too much????: i didn't have this prob with DS #1.

[LittleLlama]

Same thing happened to me with both kids. Unless it's REALLY sore, resist the urge to favor that side with nursing too much. Sometimes it takes an extra nursing on that side to level it out and get the milk out, for me, it wasn't too bad (for too long anyhow) and i'd only nurse an extra once or twice a day on that side and it finally leveled out.

[Isaac'sMa]

Well, I have this "problem" too. I put it in "" b/c I'm not really sure it's a problem at all, maybe just how my body is. One boob was always ever so slightly bigger than the other (pre-prego not noticeable to anyone but me). When my milk came in with ds1, the bigger boob got way bigger and more sore and produced more milk. And, surprise, surprise, ds favored that side over the other. Things are trending that way too with this babe. Both my boobs are like leaky faucets though...

I'd say try not to favor the more sore side except to relieve the extra engorgement. Try to use them as evenly as possible. And just a thought on being sore...one boob might be sore and the other not b/c the child might latch on to each side differently if there is a big difference in shape because of the difference in size.