Left Boob stopped making milk

I feel like my milk supply has been dropping over the past few days (I’m 4.5 months postpartum). I’ve added extra pumping sessions and have been eating all the ‘right’ foods and taking supplements, but it still feels like my supply is drying up. The strangest thing is that my left breast seems to have almost completely stopped producing—I’m only getting a few drops from it—while the right side is still producing. Please help!!!

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Is baby still feeding on that side? Or is it just pumping that you are struggling to get milk out? Could you try using a haakaa on the left whilst baby feeds on right? May be worth reaching out to the BF support page on FB. They are sept helpful there! 🤍😊

Thank you. I put her on the left side too I have a baby scale so I measured it and she can’t remove much from the left side unfortunately.

Keep doing what you’re doing.
Putt her on the left, pump and use Haakaa.

I believe it’s quite common for moms to feel like the right breast produces more milk. I have the same, however mine does produce enough for a feed, but she does get more from the right.

I pump but almost nothing comes out, should I still pump?

I assume you have tried power pumping?

I have the same issue!! How strange. I’m struggling to use the Haakaa as well.

I have the same dilemma I just stopped using the left as the right produces more than enough for my girl. Not sure if it’s the best thing to do but it works for us and I couldn’t be bothered to stress myself out trying to make the left produce more milk.

this could be an option thanks

why do you think this happened? Did she favour the right side anyways?

Honestly, I have no clue. I was feeding and expressing fine on both then over the course of maybe 3 weeks it was like the left just dried up. I tried to power pump a bit but not much was coming out and it was just getting disheartening. I did ask my GP she said sometimes it just happens🤷‍♀️

Is your baby still getting enough from the right side? And how are you feeling about trying to increase the left supply ?

I’m the opposite I make more on my left 😂

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