Am I losing supply? 🍼

Hey mamas

My son is just over two months old and we’ve been through a rough time with him being in and out of hospital with some pretty serious health scares.

I’m worried my supply has dropped due to stress and disruption. I never feel full now or leak like I did and he’s getting more angry at the boob and has dropped from the 25th to the 9th centile (unsure if this is because of supply or being poorly.

I could only breast / combi feed my first up to about 6 weeks due to supply but found this time around I had more than enough until recently.

I feed on demand every 1-2 hours so it’s not like my body isn’t getting the prompts. I used to get really full if he stretched it to 3 hours but not now

Any advice or experience on how breast feeding changes would be great. ♥️

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First of all, that sounds tough! Hope you are alright and that baby feels better soon. Okay so a drop in percentiles obviously needs investigating. My son had a very bad tummy bug and dropped from 50 to 20 percentiles at 5 months. This wasn’t an indication of my supply. But it’s good to just exclude all options, so I would call the national breastfeeding helpline (number online, it’s free to call and 24-7) to talk it through with them

In terms of the fussiness this could well be this (see post). It says 10-12 weeks, but we went through this at 7-9 weeks, so it can be a bit earlier for some. Crazy phase but it only last 1-2weeks luckily

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9mmCPutCNr/?igsh=MWZ4MnpxdzV3bGx3ZQ==

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