Reduce milk supply
Advice please going through bad baby blues’s
I had a c section on 14th April
Latched my son perfectly no problem for 3 weeks
During the last 2 weeks I’ve been on two types of antibiotics for an infection on scar opening that has reduced my milk supply and he’s now started to latch off every 5mins not sleeping long periods which indicates he’s not getting enough milk supply, I know the antibiotics can make my milk taste funny pass 3 days he’s been very tearful not resting after a feed,
I breast pumped I was only getting 2oz which is madness as I was getting over 6oz before antibiotics,
I introduced a formula he’s had 3 bottles of 5oz just so I could try get my milk supply back with pumping, it’s helping a bit,
I found when I go to put him on my breast he’s pulling away and making me all emotional all I wanted to do is breast feed my baby , is there any advice on what I should do
I was on 2 antibiotics after 4th degree tear wound & I had similar thing. Some of it might be normal cluster feeding too though and to keep putting him on.. as it works with supply and demand - the more you try to breastfeed the more it will initiate milk supply. Also try lots between the hours of 2-4am when prolactin levels are higher - the hormone that helps milk production. I had a very low supply but started pumping little & often (10 mins at a side) alongside short breast feeds - it felt like a lot at the time, almost every half hour I was pumping or feeding. It will increase soon just keep going, you got this 🙏🏻