Do I just give up

It takes time , remember as little as 50 ml a day can five immunity for life. This was me a year ago believe me it gets better. You are doing amazing. The second u let go your worries your supply will increase. Best of luck

It took me a while to get to 3, too. Sometimes I still get a 2ozer, and it bums me out, but l persist. It does take time. I make about an ounce an hour now, but we still supplement because this kid is HUNGRY.

Thanks both my kid acts starving 24/7 so it doesn’t help 😂 I’ll keep at it!

I had low supply after a traumatic birth, then started taking pumping seriously around 6 weeks, it took me about another 6 weeks to get up to exclusively breast fed (barring a few times when my supply dipped due to illness). She drank about 32oz a day so it was always a struggle to keep up with her! I EP’d from 4 months (she nursed overnight up to then) until just over a year. I needed to use a smaller flange than recommended (I was recommended 24 but ended up with a 20 on one side, 21 on the other). Hand expressing at the end of your pump can also signal to your body that it needs to make more next time. It also gets easier after 12 weeks when you can start dropping pumps. So it’s definitely not too late for you if this is what you want to do! Nothing wrong with supplementing with formula or fully switching though! You’ve done an amazing job to get this far and every bit of breast milk is an achievement ♥️

@Rhiannon thanks for this can I ask what pumping schedule you kept to and how long you pumped for, I’d love to nurse in the day and bottle in the night, but he just isn’t full from my boob feeds so I’m now pumping to try and get enough bottles but struggling to keep up I’d be happy with half his bottles! It’s just getting there which is proving difficult I’m currently stuck at 10oz a day which is frustrating!

I tried to pump or nurse every 3 hours during the day and pump at least once overnight (as well as 1-2 nursing sessions over night). I used a double pump and aimed to do 20 min, even if nothing was coming out. Sometimes she would start fussing and I would finish earlier, or I’d have to push a pump back an hour, but that was my general aim. Nurse as much as he wants to cause your baby is so much better than a pump at increasing supply! I tried to latch her every time but she never really took to it (traumatic birth resulting in c-sec + her tongue tie was missed until she was 10 weeks). I would get so much more if I pumped after she tried to nurse, but part of that was her TT was preventing her from getting much out. I kept that pumping schedule up until she was 4 months, which is when I felt secure enough in my supply to start slowly dropping pumps. Looking back, I wish I had stressed less - I cried so much over those stupid pumps!! But I’m also proud of myself. Good luck mama ♥️♥️

@Rhiannon thankyou so much for this it means a lot! I will try and match what you’ve done! Welldone! ❤️ xxxx

The average breast fed baby has 1 to 1.5oz of breast milk going a max of 3 hours. Have you tried pace feeding? Some babies guzzle on bottles and then get wind which makes them think they're still hungry

@Helen he seems always hungry I give him the boob which will keep him going sometimes an hour sometimes 5 minutes so I top him up with bottle and he drinks the full 3oz and will want more but I just give him a dummy or the boob again till he goes to sleep. He was on 4oz but the DR said to lower his feeds so now I just feed him when he’s hungry on the boob top up with expressed and if I’m out just do 3oz formula and 9/10 he drinks the lot and the boob 🤦‍♀️ and I’m pace feeding him

@Emma some babies are hungrier then others. They do love to throw any rule books out the window sometimes. Breast fed babies can go to as little as 30 minutes or less at that age, cluster feeding is not a fun time. Mine didn't have an efficient latch/didn't suck hard enough when I could get her to latch so mine would only go max 30 minutes when I latched her when she was the age of your little one. It's partly why I've been an exclusive pumper for nearly 10 months now. She would take about 30 mls (I offered 60ml) or less and be fine for 3 hours so that's how I knew she wasn't really getting much from me when she was screaming the house down soon after feeding directly off of me