EBF supply not keeping up at night
I’ve never had a problem with my supply, but now baby girl is hungrier at night and needs to drink a bigger bottle than I can pump in order to try to sleep through the night. We’re going through my freezer stash faster than I can replace it so eventually we’ll run out. Pumping more isn’t doing much for me and I already drink all the water and have all the snacks.
Anyone else struggling? Advice??
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I started supplementing with formula. It's taken a lot of the pressure off of me, and she still gets the antibodies from my milk so I'm happy. I just offer boob then bottle every time
@Alexis how did you handle that transition emotionally? It’s tearing me up thinking about it
@Rebecca I think my sadness at not being EBF anymore was outweighed by my worry for her. She gained almost no weight between her 3 month appointment and her 6 month appointment, so I was terrified that I could be under feeding her
I get donated breastmilk on Facebook! All free, just check the groups and it'll be so much less stress for you. I get enough donations to have my baby on breast milk 95% of the time!
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power pumping once a day helped me a lot! also i like to directly breastfeed so after he would eat i’d pump for 15 minutes and that seemed to increase my supply as well. it does take a couple weeks of consistently doing it tho