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Your milk flow can be affected by emotions like anxiety, embarrassment, tension or extreme tiredness. Being relaxed when breastfeeding helps your milk flow. By compressing your breast you will encourage your milk to flow which will provide your baby with more milk. Place your hand around the breast close to your chest wall and compress your breast without causing pain. When your baby is no longer drinking release the pressure.

Breast engorgement means your breasts are painfully overfull of milk. This usually occurs when a mother makes more milk than her baby uses. Your breasts may become firm and swollen, which can make it hard for your baby to breastfeed. Engorged breasts can be treated at home.

NCBI Bookshelf. Geneva: World Health Organization; Those discussed here include breast conditions and other breastfeeding difficulties, twins, a mother separated from her baby, a child with sickness, abnormality or a condition that interferes with suckling, and conditions of the mother. Growth faltering and nonexclusive breastfeeding are discussed in Session 5. The mother feels uncomfortable and her breasts feel heavy, hot and hard.