Increasing supply
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Your body WILL increase its supply, keep going!!! Mine was the same for the first 2 weeks of life, I started supplementing with formula but I met a lactation consultant that helped with latch and positioning, she advised to cut the formula even if the baby is sad! So I would rock him gently, soothe as much as I could. Eventually he became exclusively breastfed and no issues now. keeping drinking water, also pumping is better than formula so try and do that whenever possible. FYI the pump doesn’t work as efficiently as the baby, so even if there’s not much milk coming out in the pump, the baby will have more when latched so don’t worry. You should meet a lactation consultant too, you can message them any time for advice. YOU GOT THIS! IT IS TOUGH BUT IT IS WORTH IT 😊♥️
https://www.emmapickettbreastfeedingsupport.com/blog/low-milk-supply-101
Why do they think you have low supply? I was also told this because of his slow weight gain and not pumping much and was started on domperidone. It didn't make any difference to how much I was pumping. My baby did start feeding more and so might have been the domperidone or that he was just getting better at it. I stopped using a nipple shield at the same time. Did lots of skin to skin and latching him whenever I could. He's still a slow weight gainer. I do two formula top ups and did introduce a third but it made no difference to his weight gain and so I think he's just a smaller baby. He has plenty of wet and dirty nappies, and so alert. So I'm not worried about him to be honest x
The best way to increase supply is putting baby on the boob. Unfortunately pumping is not as efficient as baby.
@Melissa this is fantastic
@Yash thank you. I am 12 weeks in so I’m worried it might be too late to effectively build the supply? I had to supplement the first couple weeks too which is what I think kept my supply low. I will try and find a local lactation consultant for personalised advice.
@Faiza it was the same for us, It was the slow weight gain that’s raised a concern, and that baby does 3-4 sucks to a swallow instead of 1-2 and tends to fall asleep so I am trying to keep her awake and actively drinking and trying to do breast compressions each time but I can’t hear her swallowing all the time either. She has a bottle of formula at night and I did top up more in the day, she is still gaining weight but it is still under the 25th percentile so it might be the same thing that she’s also a smaller baby. The health visitor advised me to speak to my GP about domperidone, did you have any side effects with this? How much were you able to pump before? I can only manage to get between 15-30 mls from both breasts in one session which I know is not meant to be an indication of milk supply but it is on the much lower end
@Yash @Melissa it really is!
Skin to skin. Feed feed feed. Lots of water and eat healthy xx