I’m about to be 1 year pp and my baby still nurses every 2 hours and on demand and I am all of a sudden only making 1 oz on each side and she’s been so fussy I’m assuming because she’s hungry. She keeps trying to nurse every 20-30 min i don’t feel like she eats enough food to keep her going we do a lot of fruit and veggie smoothies and high fat foods when she does eat but she only ever takes a few bites at a time. How do I get my supply up again? I know she won’t need it for that much longer and people give their babies formula but I would much rather try to get my supply up because I planned to breast feed for at least 2 years and she still wants to nurse I’m just not making much. I’ve tried the liquid gold supplements and upping my protein intake and making myself some lactation snacks with brewers yeast but it’s not increasing
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Hmmmm you're body may be telling you something. Is your baby eating 3 meals a day (solids)? At that age, you shouldn't need to nurse as much and when you do, it should be for a longer stretch. I would try to make a schedule and alternate boob and food throughout the day. Morning milk, then breakfast in the high chair, maybe play music and make it fun. During the meal, she can use a sippy cup to start learning to quench thirst with water. Then repeat for lunch, then milk, then dinner, then bedtime milk.
I bet your already doing something similar of course but when I nursed my 2 oldest, this is how it went around that same age and then by a year an a half, we weaned them completely.

Haha see you do it already! You're a great mom!:)
So if you feed her, she still won't eat it? Do you think it's a texture thing then?
What if you were to skip her morning nursing and just feed her breakfast? She should be starving right? Maybe that could force her to actually swallow the food.
She is obsessed with water and asks for her cup all day long I don’t think she’s actually thirsty she just likes the independence of having her own cup. but has always nursed every 2 hrs and wakes often at night to nurse. She has been only walking 1-2 times but she’s started walking every 1-2 hrs to nurse. She is a good weight and healthy and has plenty of poop and pee diapers per day I just want to be able to up my milk supply so I can at least continue storing some to as to her foods and stuff. Her nursing sessions are like 8-10 min every 2 hrs plus random times in between if she hurts herself or something and then for nails or bedtime she stays latched for a good 20-30 min before letting go on her own.