Hi mummies who have successfully stop breastfeeding, may I ask how do you go about doing it?
I understand from friends around me and some mummies around me that they drag pumps and only express a little out to ease the discomfort.
I’ve been dragging my pumps, from 4 hourly - 5 hourly - 6 hourly - 12 hourly and today I just decided that I should stop doing that if I want to stop breastfeeding, and so I did not pump and only hand express out a little to ease the heaviness in my boobs during shower time.
However during the 2nd time I do hand expressing, I notice that there’s little lumps underneath both my boobs and the side of my boobs are slightly pain when I press it (feels like blocked ducts that I got before previously but was eased off when I pumped). Side story, I’m an exclusive pumping mum.
So mummies when you’re stopping and you felt such pain and lumps what do you normally do? And how frequent do you hand express it. I choose not to use pump to ease because I tend to empty my boobs entirely which is not helping me in stopping.
Please give me some advice. I’m stopping because I’m heading back to work and it’s tough to keep up pumping.
Anonymous