Low milk supply tips

I have an 8 week old and exclusively breasted for two weeks but baby was struggling with my supply and spent hours and hours at the breast getting frustrated so used formula to make sure she was being fed.

Since then I've been pumping, formula feeding and occasional successful nursing but latching is now difficult.

Any tips to build my supply? I've been drinking lots of water, doing lots of skin to skin and taking moringa capsules. I have endometriosis so avoid taking phytoestrogens (fennel, fenugreek) which are unfortunately meant to be good for building supply.

Only producing 50ml per session from both breasts.and this declines as the day goes on. I feel like it should be at least double if I'm exclusively pumping? Should I just accept there is nothing more I can do to increase supply? I'd love my baby to be having more of my breast milk if I am unable to breastfeed directly.

Please help!

1

in our community

Reviews

Has anyone bought this bundle? Was any good and was it worth money?

12

Sleep during the day.

My nearly 4 week baby girl loves her sleep at night and will easily settle back down after her feeds however, during the day I struggle to get her to sleep or when she does she will sleep in my arms, if I try to transfer her to her cot she wakes straight away. Any suggestions on how I can help her or what I’m doing wrong?

1

5

18 months

How many words is good for 18 months? My child says 22 words that I’ve counted and I feel proud but is this just average lol

6

Wake windows a myth for some?

My baby seems to laugh in the face of wake windows. We wake around 6-7am, he might fall asleep after his breakfast feed for a little bit but his only other long nap is our lunchtime walk in the carrier. Otherwise he is awake for hours on end but seemingly quite happy.

If anyone has a newborn who also doesn’t conform to the whole 60m rule, don’t worry, your baby isn’t broken and you’re not doing anything wrong, just go with their flow!

1

15

Bed Time - 4 months old

Hey mamas! How is everyone coping with an early bed time routine at 4 months old? My old friend chat gpt reckons that an early bed time of 7pm-9pm should be the norm but my girl will not go to bed until after 10pm 😭. Is it too early for sleep training or do most just follow their baby’s tired cues? X

10

Did anyone else’s epidural not work?

Writing retrospectively here. I had a epidural with my 1st baby in 2025 and it pretty much had no effect, I was in absolute agony the whole time (hours). Anyone else experience this?

Midwife now says this isn’t normal and I shouldn’t have been in pain.
Due my 2nd in 6 weeks and debating weather I should go for one again. 😣

9