HARD Rock!

Yesterday i had a bad bad breast (1 side) engorgement. Almost 3/4 of my breast is swollen and as hard as a ROCK. Imagine a rock inside it, and the shape of the breast actually follow the rock! Out of shape terus! Painful and so sensitive to touch. From morning till night I been struggling with this pain. Hubby even skipped his squash practice, standby to send me to see doctor/gynae. Aiyo, what can actually doctors help le.. In my first pregnancy, almost every week, i faced severe engorgement.. till fever some more.. seen doctors, but only being send home with paracetamol and advice to pump and feed regularly. No one can help except our bb. But, long time Yijing has not been feed directly (except night time when she is too sleepy to suck , only treat me as her pacifier). Plus my aerola is too hard she can't even latch properly. Since any pump also can't help me, i only can use hand-express. Little by little.. till i sweat like hell especially in this kinda of weather. Since i reluctant to see doctor, so hubby tried to search from the net for any help/tip. He happened to bum into this chinese forum where a mommy had same situation like me last time. Can't pump can't feed .. So what she did is she squeezed oranges juice up to 1 bowl (small chinese soup bowl) and add 1/2 bowl of rice wine. Steam it for 15mins and drink it hot. She went to sleep and direct feed during sleep time.. and early in the morning, engorgement is gone! My hubby is so nice.. he prepared a bowl for me while i handle 2 kids in living room. Drank it, felt a little bit dizzy coz rice wine has 17% alcohol. Quickly finished up house chores and went to sleep. But Yijing is toooooo sleepy to suck. AIYO.. so woke up at 12:30am to try pump.. jeng jeng jeng.. milk shoots out after 1 minute of pumping.. what a relief! I GOT BACK MY BOOB finally!! Though milk production has decrease drastically from that boob, but I'm sure in no time it will regain back its efficiency. BTW, I can't really guarantee if this tip really works for everyone, but at least for me and for this time, YES, it works!

If you have any tips to get rid severe engorgement , please feel free to leave comments here.. :)