So two of Bella's kids went to their new homes yesterday, the third is staying here. All three kids were with her 24/7 up until now and obviously the boys were pigs! She is really getting engorged to the point where she was crying to be milked at 2am today. I milked her then and she was engorged again at 6:30 so I milked then. At 12:30 she was really big and hard on one side, but not so bad on the other. I went ahead and milked that one side just enough to make her more comfortable. I only want to milk twice a day, so am I right in milking her a little if she gets really big and then milking out completely twice a day? Here is a picture I took at 12:30, so it had been 6hrs since I had milked (sorry it's not a great picture, she didn't want to move her tail out of the way):
