When breastfeeding, many mothers often wonder how to increase their milk supply because it is so hard to measure how much our baby is eating at any given time. If you feel like you might have a low milk supply, there are a couple of things you can do to help this problem.
Feed Your Baby More Often
Speaking from experience, the more you feed your baby, the more milk you will produce. When my daughter was born, I had a very weak milk supply. My milk didn’t come in for a full 9 days, and when it did come, it was only about a half ounce every couple hours. My daughter wasn’t gaining any weight and I wound up supplementing with formula for about 3 weeks. But I still fed her. I fed her every hour on the dot. I know this sounds extreme, but I did it. Many lactation consultants and doctors recommend that you feed your baby at least every 2 hours, but if you have problems with milk supply, you have to do it every hour, at least until your supply builds up.
Pump
In conjunction with increasing your feedings, you should be pumping as well. This is what made my milk come in, in the first place. Every time you feed you child, you should pump for 15 minutes after your child is done eating. The stimulation that you get from pumping will tell your breasts that there is a bigger demand for milk and they will create more. You should also start doing a power pumping session, at least once a day. A power pumping session is basically pumping your breasts for 15 minutes, and then waiting 15 minutes, pumping for 15 minutes, and then waiting 15 minutes. This puts a lot of demand for milk on your breasts, and doing this every day will definitely create more milk.
Put Everything Else on the Backburner
What I mean by this is, make everything less important than feeding your child and building your milk supply. If you are feeding every hour, pumping for 15 minutes after every feed and doing a power pump session every day, you really don’t have any time for anything else. Get some help from family members or friends to get the daily cleaning and laundry done. Building your milk supply is a full time job and you shouldn’t be able to do anything else for a while.
If you do this every day for at least a couple of weeks, you should start seeing results rapidly. I am proof of this. I went from pumping a half ounce from both breasts to filling a 5 oz bottle with both breasts in a matter of months.
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