Home Forums Induced Lactation aka Adoptive Breastfeeding Medical Interventions to Induce Lactation/Increase Milk Supply ignorant question about pumping

The past week or so, when I'm pumping, I get this hot needle-like pain in my breasts. It doesn't last long (just a few seconds) and it kind of comes and goes. When I'm not pumping, I'll get the pain very rarely, but it happens almost every time I pump.

Is this let down or is something wrong?

I had a similar feeling. I'm not sure if its let down. The other ladies will be able to answer this better.

I have not experienced this type of pain (yet) while re-lactating but I experienced it many times when I was pumping for my son when he was a newborn. Most of the time it happened when I wasn't pumping but a lot of times it happened when I was. It would hurt for a split second and then be gone. Sometimes it would happen several times within a few minutes. Most of the time it was in my right breast. I have no idea if it's normal or not but you aren't the only one out there.

Yes, that's let down!!