Breastfeeding my 6 week old and it seems like my milk all the sudden is not coming in?
Up until now I have had pretty good milk supply. As soon as my baby started sucking, I would feel it drop. It tingled so bad it almost hurt. I would leak all day, I really think I was making alot. But, just in the last couple hours it feels like I have nothing. My baby is really fussy and keeps wanting to nurse and he acts like hes not getting any, I have to squeeze them pretty hard to get anything to come out, but I did see a little. I don’t feel it dropping, nothing. What do I do? My baby seems really hungry..
feeling full and leaking all day just means that before you had too much milk and now your breasts are only making what your baby needs but in saying that it sounds like your baby is going through a growth spurt (typical at 6 to 8 weeks) so you may in fact not have enough milk at the moment, the good news is that a growth spurt only lasts about a weeks so you may in fact be almost past it, but if a low milk supply is worrying you, you could express first thing in the morning (no more that 50 ml) when your breast are at their fullest and then again after your second feed of the day and then again before bed, remember to save this milk so you can feed it to bubs when s/he is still hungry.
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