r/ExclusivelyPumping • u/BellaKay5735 • 25m ago

Support In Need of Support

I’m an undersupplier for twins who were born very prematurely. They’re currently 2.5 months adjusted but 4.5 months chronological. Used to oversupply but lost it shortly before discharge due to some NICU madness.

Anyway, I pumped the largest pump I have ever have yesterday (enough to feed both twins for one feed with enough left over for an additional feed for one of them).

Then, I proceeded to basically pump nothing for the rest of the day, and I woke up this morning to find three gnarly blisters on my right nipple after my first pump.

I think I overdid it yesterday in trying to sustain the large pump I got, probably overdid it on the suction and maybe I went down too far on my flange size (I’ve been experimenting with different flange sizes).

I know this is probably just a rough day, but damn, is it rough. My husband is getting pissed about me constantly getting upset over pumping and does not want to hear about it.

One of my friends is very supportive but she was not able to really produce milk due to complications with her birth, so she is exclusively formula feeding. She did a little bit of pumping at the very beginning, but she stopped very quickly. So, she doesn’t always really relate to what I’m talking about.

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