How to produce more milk?👩‍🍼

Honestly I’m starting to give up. I feel like a failure that I cannot provide my children with natural food. For context: I’m a first time mum to 6 week old twins. While I was pregnant I actually thought I would exclusively breast feed. My twins weren’t latching on well at first so straight away the nurses suggested combination feeding (5 minutes on breast and then the rest with formula) which I did for 2-3 weeks. Fast forward a couple weeks, I hate breast feeding so I’ve been pumping. At first I was producing an okay amount, now I don’t even produce an ounce. I was only pumping once a day until I read that to produce more milk I should be pumping throughout the day, around every 3 hours. I’m going to try pumping at LEAST twice a day but is there anything else I can do to produce more milk??? Now that I’m 6 weeks PP is too late to start producing more milk? Ideally I’d love to give them one full bottle of breast milk EACH a day, that’d make me over the moon Grateful for any help/advice?🤍🤍

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It's not too late, but even pumping twice a day isn't enough. You need to be pumping every 3 hours to mimic your babies needs, although pumping is not an indication of your supply. Some mums just can't pump very much milk but can successfully breast feed.

Yes id say every 3 hours still even through the night. Maybe go back to letting them latch and see if that helps. Personally i exclusively breastfed but i only have 1 and i cant get any out but she gets plenty feeding direct x

I feel you girl! I was literally on the same boat!! I was so desperate to breastfeed my baby and would cry cause 1 I couldn’t latch her on & 2 I wasn’t even producing ANYTHING! I didn’t give up though!! I drank lots of oatmeal in the am with the boobie bars from target and during the day I would snack on those with body armor (drinks) or even coconut water!!! & let me tell you! I HATED pumping! My family & friends would tell me to pump every 2-3 hours to keep it coming and honestly I only did that for about 3 months and after I would just feed my baby directly!!!! Here we are now ! 1 year and 1 month later 🤍🫠 Good luck chula!!! Don’t give up! You got this!!! We were literally meant to do this 🤍😘

Unfortunately there’s no easy way of increasing milk supply as it’s all supply and demand. You would need to be pumping at least every 3 hours day and night. Once or twice will never be enough.

I’m so sorry to mirror what everyone else is saying but you absolutely need to be pumping three hourly. If not your supply won’t increase x

@Karen thank you so much girl! I will try some of those things🤍

Thanks so much everyone! Pumping every 3 hours it is, wish me luck because I don’t know how I’m going to do it in the middle of the night 😂😭 I’m currently pumping as I type this 🤪. Thanks again everyone, hoping to see an increase in milk within the next week or so🤞🤍

Defo not too late but from experience you have to pump regularly everyday or it will just stop! Even at night when your sleeping, skin to skin contact helps too when your babies are crying for milk it tells your body that they need the milk, good luck mumma x

@Shanice ooo I never knew that about the skin to skin! Thanks girl x