Enough?

I’m 9 days PP and exclusively pumping because of a traumatic labour where I need to recover and a tongue tie, plus various issues.

In the last 24 hours (7pm yesterday-7pm today) I have expressed about 29 oz - is that about right? I’m usually a feed ahead of baby but I have the hospital telling me it’s not sustainable and I need to solely breastfeed and that I’ve not got enough milk for baby :(

Is there any advice on increasing my supply so I can build a stash?

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29oz is fine!

Especially for 9 days pp!

Ive pumped for a whole year and I always remain 1 pump ahead of baby. I did get enough at first to have a stash.

I think at his most by baby would have about 40oz in a day but he was a very hungry boy!

You can build on your supply and increase it if you need to by power pumping. You do not have to breast feed. Its sustainable to pump.

As an added note. Power pump to increase supply. Do not miss night pumps. Never skip pumps (at least untol your about 12 weeks in when ur supply regulates) and you can eat oats..... drink coconut water..... some people use fenugreek altho for some that has the opposite effect.

Main thing is to be consistent pumping. Make sure ur parts are ok and dont need replacing etc and that you have the correct pump flange sizes but with 29oz sounds like you do!

If you have to supplement a little with formula if baby does get mega hungry though. Dont beat yourself up !

Girl my baby is 9 weeks and I’m pumping 29-32oz a day. You’re fine. Keep a tight schedule early on and you’ll do great. The worst case scenario is adding supplemental feeds with formula (which tbh accepting that saved my breastfeeding journey) - now we maybe give one bottle of formula and the rest BM and he’s growing like a weed

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