Hello fellow mommies,

I am a first time mom. My baby just turned 1 month yesterday. My breastfeeding journey was extremely rough the first 3-5 days with cracked nipples, stinging pain, water bubbles, scabs.. basically the whole 9 yards.

BUT thankfully after those 5 days after crying on day 3 and 4 from the pain but still pushing through and breastfeedinf everything after that to a whole month has been great!. Aside from some anxiety from me baby has been feeding and latching super well.

Now. 1 month old. I think I'm engorged but everywhere I read engorgment is supposed to hurt? My breasts don't hurt but they are hard. My baby gets a forceful letdown I hear him gulping away at it and then he gets fussy as if no more is coming out. So I try to express and nothing once I massage my breast then it fountains out. So there's definitely milk.. its just getting blocked somehow and I massage to get more out. Super weird for me. Is this engorgment? I'm scared for it to turn into mastitis but it doesn't hurt now. My breast get hard before a feeding and I do have to pull the nipple into his mouth for him to latch but he eats the letdown perfectly once he's latched then is when I have to massage to get more out. Well if any of you ladies can help me. I hope it doesn't come off as me complaining about breastfeeding but I used to be able to lay down and just stick my boob in his mouth and he eats now i have to more actively feed him by taking my boob out when he's fussy and crying but still trying to suck to massage it and unblock whatever blocked it and its just making feedings much longer.