glossary
What is engorgement?
Quick answer: Engorgement is the painful overfull swelling, milk plus tissue fluid, most intense when milk first comes in (days 2 to 5) and during abrupt schedule changes or weaning.
In practice
Relief is gentle and cyclical: brief warmth or a shower before removing milk, remove to comfort (a nursing baby or a few minutes of pumping or hand expression), then cold packs to calm swelling. Removing only to comfort, not to empty, keeps relief from becoming an oversupply order. Fever or a hot red patch escalates it to a provider call.
In Milk First
Log any session in two taps, backdate the ones you forgot, and let the 7-day average chart answer supply questions with real numbers. Every pump files its milk into the stash automatically.
Milk First speaks this whole language for you: seshes logged in two taps, every bag on its correct clock.
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