My child has consistently been eating 4oz every hour either breast milk or formula. I produce about 2oz every 3 hours and have tried everything to produce this much. Is it even possible at 4 months to produce this much?
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I would like to know this as well. With my 10 week old he can drink 5-6 oz from a bottle, but when I pump during a bottle feeding i only get 2-4 ounces. Is my pump on the wrong setting?

My daughter did the same thing. Now during some of her feedings especially before bed she will eat 8 oz

I think there’s ways to try increase your supply like hydration etc but the main thing I would also check is that the flange size is correct, the pump is a hospital grade one and the parts don’t need replacing xx

I've experienced this and had luck w below settings to increase my supply:
- drink water before and during
- start with highest massage setting (60 / 5 on mine) and maintain for 2 mins
- at 2 min mark, switch to express setting highest level (48/12 on mine). Do this for 8 mins.
-at 10 min mark, switch back to massage (60/50)
- ar 12 min mark, switch back to express, but a bit lower setting (42/12 on mine). Maintain til 15 min then done
You'll likely run out of milk early in process, but keep going, this tells your body to make more

Pumping output is ZERO indication of what baby can get out. Some women cant get any milk out pumping but have ni supply issues. Its also hell of a lot easier to get milk out of a bottle than the breast so babies tend to keep chugging on a bottle. Trust your titties is what i always say 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤣🤣

She eats from me and then is still hungry. Sometimes her mouth will hurt so bad she can only do bottle