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Breast milk is the perfect food for normal neonate. It is the best gift a mother can give her baby. It contains all the nutrients for normal growth and development of a baby from the time of birth to first six months of life. Proper proportion and in a form that is easily digested and absorbed .Infants need to be given only exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of life."If the winter comes can the spring be for behind."Great poet says that the spring is followed by winter. That reveals that the joy after suffering. But labour does not come to end with child birth. The mothers do suffer much difficulty after childbirth. The design adopted for the study was quasi experimental pre- test and post -test control group design to assess the effectiveness of breast massage on reduction of breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian section. Purposive sampling was used to select 60 mothers in selected hospitals among that 30 samples were allotted for experimental group, 30 samples for control group. The data collection tools developed for generating the necessary data were standard scale was used to assess breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian sectionThe reliability of rating scale (r=0.9) was established by test retest technique method. The tool was found to be reliable. Pilot study was conducted to find out the feasibility of the study and to plan for data analysis. There was no significant difference between mean pretest level of breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian section in experimental and control group (t=0.86, p<0.05). There was a significant difference between mean post test level of breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian section in experimental and control group(t=4.88, p<0.05). There was a significant difference between mean pre and post test level of breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian section in experimental group(t=5.76, p<0.05). There was a no significant difference between mean pre and post test level of breast engorgement among mothers undergone caesarian section in control group(t=0.05, p<0.05). There was no significant association between post-test level of breast engorgement and experimental group demographic variables in age, education, occupation, postnatal day, feeding started, duration and frequency of feeding among mothers undergone caesarian section at ( p<0.05) level. There was a significant association between post-test level of breast engorgement and experimental group demographic variables in gravida, among mothers undergone caesarian section at (p<0.05) level. There was no significant association of post-test level of breast engorgement and control group demographic variables in age, education, occupation, postnatal day, feeding started, duration and frequency of feeding among mothers undergone caesarian section at ( p<0.05) level. There was a significant association between post-test level of breast engorgement and control group demographic variables gravida, among mothers undergone caesarian section at (p<0.05) level. Conclusion: The results of the study concluded that breast massage was effective on reduction of breast engorgement among mothers undergone cesarean section Breast massage is easy to practice, not painful and can enhance comfort to mother in the postnatal period, hence could easily be adopted as a regular intervention.