Milk supply

i feel this way too. I am a teacher and we have been on winter break the last two weeks. My supply took a big dip during this time. I feel like a lot of it is because I wasn’t drinking as much water as I usually did during the school day and because I was not pumping as much as I usually did either. Now that school has started back up, i am hoping that my supply goes back up to where I was pre-break. Unfortunately, I don’t have any advice on how to fix it. But just know that you are not alone.

I had a friend struggling with her supply, it turned out she was prescribed a medication, by the person she was seeing for her mental health, and one of the less common effects was impact to milk production so the person didn't think to mention it to my friend. My friend didn't know what was going on at all, we were trying to think through any and all possibilities. She finally spoke to the person again and ended up finding out what the cause was. She decided it was more important for her to be on the medication and fully transitioned to formula.

I'm mentioning this to help you think of possible reasons but realistically the best thing you can do is make sure your baby's belly is full.

Ditto the above and that you’re not failing! My supply plummets from lack of sleep (hello, baby!) and stress (which is stress when my supply drops thereby making it even worse). Recently I’ve started supplementing some feeds for my mental health and this morning officially decided to transition to small amounts of pumped milk and formula. I think it will allow me to release the stress over feeding and be more present with my guy. It took a long time to get acclimated to the idea of not breastfeeding and I fought the transition for too long probably (he’s now 8mo and this struggle started at mo 3). You may be able to bring up your supply through rest, distressing, eating and hydration and pumping so try not to get too disheartened. But ultimately know that you will feed your child however you need to and that makes you the exact mom your kid needs (breastfeeding is not a barometer for being the mom your kid needs…even though it often feels that way!!)