Re: Recurring nipple and breast pain
An all over the place nursing routine won't cause breast pain. What you describe- the deep soreness- sounds more like a plugged duct to me than anything else. They can be so deep in that you can't feel them. How long has this been going on? If it's just been a short while, and it came on suddenly, that would support the plugged duct hypothesis.
Milk production and breast size increase due to milk peak in early infancy, usually in the first weeks of breastfeeding. I know that seems odd, because you see older formula-fed babies drinking enormous bottles, and you assume that a breastfed baby will need that same amount. But it's not so: breastfed babies never drink as much in one sitting as formula-fed babies do, and tend to have a maximum demand of 3-4 oz, on average, throughout their first year! (Though there can be wide variation in the amount a baby takes at a given feeding.) So any changes in breast size you experience after the first few months are likely to be deflating, not inflating.
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