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Does hand expressing give you any relief?

@MrsADS: how long do you pump for? can you wean back minute by minute over a few nights?

@MrsADS: I would starting timing how long that takes, and cut down little by little. I commiserate with you though--I don't have a massive oversupply, but I get painfully engorged at night when LO goes more than 2 hours, and I end up spraying milk everywhere when she tries to nurse!

I was in exactly the same boat. I tried to pump only enough to take the edge off but it was always around 6 ounces before I could let DS nurse at night without him getting barfing from all the imbalanced milk. I took a sedated every night before going to bed so that I could at least get a couple of hours before I woke up soaked. Honestly, it did not get better until I went back to work at 5 months. Something about being away from DS during the day finally cut my supply, but I am still, at 10 months, sometimes wake up too engorged to sleep. I still have to take the sudafed or I wake up in pain, but it's so much better than before.

Block feeding was the only thing that helped me with this.

@MrsADS: I basically just tried to endure as much as possible while being careful about clogs. I basically found that if I hand expressed I could find relief without expelling as much milk. Because I was trying to decrease my supply I didn't want to pump too much. But there was a lot of choking for the first two months while I got my oversupply under control.

And I also used ice packs and cold cabbage in my bra to relieve some pain. Plus hot showers. It was a stressful couple of months and I went though a ton of breast pads. It's tough to figure out because you want to solve the problem but you're in pain and your baby is in pain. A lot of it for me was just trying to endure. Also, on the block feeding - I often would feed DD from one side for like 6-8 hours (so like three or four feedings). And my other side would be super hard and painful but that kept DD's poops normal and not green and painful. As long as I wasn't getting clogs and DD had normal looking poops, I tried to endure the pain of engorgement as much as possible. It was rough! So you definitely have my sympathy!