Exhaustion
Anyone else feeling completely exhausted? I'm currently 2.5 weeks postpartum and trying to get my milk supply and production up so have been either breastfeeding or pumping quite regularly. The past few nights I've been up for about 2-3 hours at 2am, and then again at about 7am + for pumping, feeding and changing nappies. Yesterday the total breastfeeding time was 7 hours and pumping was 2.5 hours. I am really exhausted but I am conscious about cutting down on pumping or feeding as I really hope this breastfeeding thing works out well In the end (hoping to get a good excess supply of pumped breastmilk so my husband can also feed her and I can get more rest/break).
Anyone has any thoughts or advice on dealing with exhaustion particularly with having to pump and breastfeed?
I try to take a nap in the afternoon too but the broken sleep in the early hours is catching up on me.
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I’m also 2.5 weeks post partum and struggling with my milk supply. Just bought that go with the flow hot chocolate I see recommended all the time on TikTok to see if that helps with my breast milk supply. But I’ve heard it’s worked for a lot of women
Your supply is establishing itself until 6 weeks. So when your husband does give baby a bottle of your pumped milk, your milk will come in and you will need to pump again.
At this point, give yourself a break and just catch the let down milk with shells or a Hakka is more effective. When feeding baby on one boob, put the Hakka on the other one and it does the work of drawing the milk out.
Being tired and stressed in itself will affect your milk supply.
It may be better to wait until 6 weeks before you start a regular pumping regime. Maybe one pump a day if you really want to but your supply is establishing itself now.
You might encourage over supply which could cause a few issues
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