My letdown is painful....?

Question

i have a 2 month old baby girl and breastfeeding is great, but when my breast milk lets down while feeding her ans sometimes when it letdowns prematurely it hurts, it only last about a minute, feels like little pieces of glass are coming down too. i have a 3 yr son and breastfed him to until he was 15 mos old. and it never ever hurt like this. i mean it hurts more than when your b***s first get engorged.

has anyone had this same experience, oh and it just started doing this like 2-3 weeks ago. what wrong. it hurts so bad i almost want to stop BF.

Answer 1

I hated the feeling of the let down reflex.  For me it felt like a really bad cramp in my boob.

Answer 2

I almost screamed each time my daughter nursed for the first six weeks at least.  My b*****s were really engorged and my daughter had a really hard time nursing because the milk came out so fast.  All of that went away though after a while and now there is no pain and no engorgement.

Answer 3

That can be quite normal in the early weeks.

It does start to ease of and get better as your baby gets a little older.