You girls are going to hate me. Really sorry!
Last night, after O refused to get off the boob for 3 hours, boobs aching & basically during a very emotional meltdown I decided I was giving up breastfeeding, that I was a shite mother & was just going to mess up continuously.
This morning after very little sleep, myself & O woke up & had a cuddle. I realise now it was probably just hormones but it was horrible feeling like that.
Anyway, O had a feed this morning about 8:30 & has really dozed on/off since then. I've offered him the boob the few times he's woke up but he's more interested in sleeping right now. I'm assuming that's ok.
Because he was sleeping my boobs are so full, painfully so. Tried a shower, tried hand expressing, hot flannel but I couldn't get any milk off to get relief. I seen the express pump lying in the corner of my room & decided it was either try that or force O to wake & he looks so peaceful.
I didn't expect it to work really but I got 1oz off each boob! In 1.5 hours. I had intended to start expressing when supply was established because with me being by myself I really need O to be open to taking a bottle also. Should I freeze this milk? Dump it? Try O with 1oz in a bottle? I didn't expect to get any & now that I have I have no idea what to do with it.