Sudden decrease in supply

Hey guys, I would love your advice on how to fix this. I have been breast-feeding and bottle-feeding because my L will start daycare next week and I will go back to work. My LO is three months old today but born three weeks early so a little younger than three months. I noticed my breast have softened, which I know is normal, and I was pumping 2-4 ounces each breast twice a day (I feed baby 2x with bottle) and breastfeeding the rest however I have noticed that my breasts are unusually soft and now when I pump I’m only getting one to 2 ounces if that on each breast. This has this happened to anyone before? If so, what did you do to help get your supply back up. Any advice would greatly help I’m freaking out because i want to solely breastfeed and not resort to formula.

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Only happens to me if I'm not drinking enough water that day or have not ate enough. Could just be your supply has regulated. The more you stress it will affect your supply, easier said than done but don't stress! Keep doing what you're doing and hydrate!

This happened to me as well, I drank body armors each day until my supply got back up. It worked wonders

so my breast got soft a few weeks ago so I know they regulated then that’s why I am wondering why it’s happening now and I’m not pumping as much anymore. I got body armor and I’m replacing my pumping parts to see if that works. Thanks for all the support I’m trying not to stress just wanna make sure my baby girl is getting enough to eat. Usually when I pump I have 3 to 4 ounces on one side so I know she’s eating enough but now I’m only pumping 1.5 ounces on one side and I’m freaking out. But glad to know Im not alone. I think it’s because I’m not drinking enough water or eating enough.

You could try power pumping if your concerned about your supply. I go back to work this week so i’m hoping my supply doesn’t take a dip, but i power pump in the mornings when my supply seems to have the most.

im going back to work next week so I want to get my supply back up so it doesn’t drop/dry up. Im going to power pump again this morning after she eats. Yesterday was my first day and I think it’s working so far plus the body armor.

Water and keeping up supplements helped me! I still take my prenatal and added the Legendary Milk Liquid Gold supplements. I really noticed my supply increased

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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