I am 7 weeks pregnant and nursing a 10 mo old my breasts are not sore at all is this normal?

Question

My breasts are not only not sore but smaller then before, I wonder if my milk supply is way down? I worry about missed miscarage which I have had before.

Answer 1

you wont miscarry nursing a baby.
i would let your 10 moth old still nurse for alittle longer then wait until the baby comes to worry about that one breast feeding. some women to get smaller breast after breast feeding,its normal.doest mean u wont be able to breast feed.

Answer 2

I have nursed through pregnancy twice. All my babies were born full-term, healthy and of average size.

I had less breast changes/sensitivity with those two pregnancies since the milk factory was already in operation. I don't think the lack of soreness is really an issue.

Your milk supply could be starting to dip. For me, that usually didn't happen until the second trimester. Some moms do notice changes in supply earlier though. Make sure you are getting enough to eat and drink and taking your prenatal vitamins. This will help you to maintain your supply a little longer.

There are some wonderful links about the safety of nursing during pregnancy below. There is also a great book called "Adventures in Tandem Nursing: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy & Beyond" by Hilary Flower that I highly recommend you read.

For most mothers, it is completely safe to continue to nurse through a pregnancy. If your caregiver says that you can have sex, then you can also nurse. (The uterine contractions caused by orgasm are very similar to those caused by nursing.)

Lesley Regan, PhD, MD, heads the Miscarriage Clinic at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, the largest referral unit in Europe, and is the author of "Miscarriage: What every woman should know." She was surprised to hear that anyone considers issues related to miscarriage to be reasons for weaning. She added:

"Once a pregnancy is clinically detectable, breastfeeding should pose no added risk of pregnancy loss. There isn’t any data suggesting a link between breastfeeding and miscarriage, and I see no plausible reason for there to be a link."

Obstetrician David Weismiller, MD, wrote a synthesis of research on preterm labor for the American Academy of Family Physicians; he is an assistant professor and director of women's health in the Department of Family Medicine at East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC. He concurs that there is no evidence that implicates breastfeeding in increasing the risks of preterm labor in healthy pregnancies.

I hope this helps!

ETA:
By the way.....you can nurse them both together if you want and your oldest still wants to nurse when the baby arrives. The site below and book mentioned both have info on tandem nursing. My #1 and #2 tandemed and it was a good experience. I would have liked to tandem again with #2 and #3, but the older nursing weaned shortly before the baby was born.