Anyone else, I feel like my milk production is at a standstill

I mostly EBF. We finished up the formula I had as backup that I only used while we were out in public. I pumped as well but now I’m trying to make sure she only gets breastmilk. Nursing and I have a bottle for her when she goes to the nursery at church twice a week. (I also often leave class to come nurse her as she refuses bottles very often and will just scream). But these days she nurses for a long time on one boob and falls asleep, but if I put her down she’ll scream and want the other boob so I just move her to the other boob when she unlatches anyway. She’ll nurse for 20 minutes or more and still act hungry. She’s at 6-7 oz with the bottle so it just doesn’t seem like I can satisfy her just nursing anymore. I used to nurse my son and then offer him a bottle and he’d drink some of it and be fine. I just didn’t want to always have to do that with her too. Why can’t I produce enough. I dried up 8 months pp with my son as he started refusing to nurse because I barely produced anything and was also 2 months pregnant with my daughter and had another drop in production bc of the pregnancy. This was supposed to be my chance to try again with breastfeeding. Today he was so unhappy. Screaming because she couldn’t get a lot out. I felt so awful, like I let her down. I thawed out a bottle of expressed milk and gave it to her after nursing for like 15 minutes. She drank 4 oz in addition to how much he had with me. Idk what else to do, do I pump constantly as well. I barely have time as I’m nursing every hour and a half to two hours.

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How old is she? What about trying moringa leaf, massaging before she latches, squeezing while she nurses, and using head pads on the breast before she latches?

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