My milk isn’t enough

The past few nights my LO he screamed non stop and fed non stop. I figured this was normal as witching hours and growth spurt as he is 3 weeks.

We have been combi feeding because my milk came through late and he was struggling to gain weight.

The past few nights I have mostly breastfed and given 2 bottles (90ml each) over 6 hours.

Tonight it has been 2 hours and LO has only has formula from my partner and is a lot more settled. It’s obvious that my milk isn’t satisfying him and I feel stupid for crying to my partner about the past few days (I dragged him back from work last night) and I also feel like I’m not good enough.

Really feeling like just packing in breastfeeding. Does anyone have any advice to keep morale up? I feed only from breast during the night and daytime but he still also needs formula in the late morning. Everytime he needs formula to stop the screaming it makes me feel like I’ve failed 😞

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I know what you’re going through, but please don’t feel like a failure! It takes time for your milk to come through and to settle in. The most important thing is to keep your baby well fed, so either your milk or adding formula to the feedings. I would suggest to pump in the meantime so that your baby gets to produce more. If I have been doing it all, I wasn’t making much at first, so I HAD TO give my baby formula. I have been pumping from the day I gave birth and now that my baby is 3mo everything is going for the best! Bottles I’d suggest since you want to keep breastfeeding are Evenflo (wide neck), Lansinoh, Pigeon. They al mimic mama’s nipple, I wouldn’t use anything else tbh. It’ll get better, hang in there mama!🫶🏼

I went through this at 3 weeks with my LO as well. We did the same exact thing resorted to giving him formula once at night. I started pumping and that’s what we would give him at night instead of formula he’s not 8 weeks and wakes up at night to feed but we give him the bottle of breastmilk and it seems to have done the trick FOR NOW 😬

Thank you!! I have got a new pump and I’m getting 120-150ml per pump so I think I’m the evenings when he has formula I will spend that time pumping until we have a good supply to wean out the formula

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