Milk supply

Please tell me your positive supply stories and things that actually helped. Currently 6 weeks PP. Seeing results with regular pumping (5 per 24 hours) and Domperidone but still a long way off full supply, hoping there’s still a chance to keep increasing output.

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I pumped every 2 hours. Always made it to a full 260ml. Good eating habits as well as loads of water.

I have a lot of oat based foods and things with brewers yeast. The Sabi blend tea also helped me :)

I wayyy struggled, baby was losing weight I was tired, recovering from an emergency C-section and an infection.. baby had a tongue tie.

I refused to supplement with formula though, as they were telling me to do. I was up power pumping at night and topping baby up with extra milk then my body started to make more and at around 4 months old we went fully exclusive boob.

I also made oat cookies (lactation cookies), had teas and drank coconut water for electrolytes. But the true shift happened when I stopped stressing so much about it.

She’s now 22 months and still breastfed!

I used the hot chocolate too which tasted decent and it worked it just takes a little while before u see results! My babas 6 months and he’s fully breastfed to this day I had issues at the start of breastfeeding and I was pumping straight after his feed even if I had nothing coming out I’d still continue to try and signal my body to make more I also attempted lactation cookies and a lot of flapjack and porridge!

I had a similar issue, health visitor didn't help as they just constantly stressed me out that my baby had dropped too many percentiles (was born 95th and dropped but tracked on the 75th). I started feeding every 1.5hrs more because there was a heat wave and I was worried about dehydration. Seemed to do the trick. I didn't wake for feeds at night just on demand if she woke.

People love to overcomplicate breastmilk supply, as evidenced by many comments above and you taking some sort of medicine to try to up it. If your baby is 6 weeks old then pumping 5 times in 24 hours is just not enough and it is entirely supply and demand, you have to remove milk to signal your body to make more. A 6 week old would nurse at least every 2-3 hours day and night with cluster feeds too, so if you aren’t pumping as often as that then you will not have enough supply. Are you only pumping, no nursing?

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