Will PUMPING teach my breast the wrong message?

[Friendlee]

**Okay, I'm sleep deprived and we call our October baby "Little Pumpkin" But I was not asking is Pumpkin will teach my breast the wrong message!!! Ha!! I meant, will "pumping" teach my breast the wrong message. Sheesh. I am so tired.

I have one breast that gets engorged over night and throughout the day too IF my baby doesn't nurse from it enough. When I pump off about 4 oz in the morning and then let her nurse, she latches on nicely and stays there for a good feed. If I don't pump, she pops on and off constantly and spills milk all over the both of us because of the overactive let down. It's a mess and she doesn't really get much and certainly doesn't get the hindmilk!

However...if I continue to pump that breast in the mornings to help her...won't that breast think the demand is higher than it really is and therefore continue to make too much milk on that one side?

[foreverinbluejeans]

You could try just hand expressing. That would be less stimulating than the pump. Keep a towel or blanket near for all the extra milk mess.

[CookAMH]

I did the same thing and it gradually adjusted over a few weeks. i would add tha because of the supply imbalance DS nurses on the bigger side 95% of the time. Normal supply on big side, little supply on other.