I've had a hard time bf from the start - milk never came in and I had to supplement from the start; I soon tried to revert to EBM but baby had not regained birthweight after 2 weeks so I carried on mixed feeding.
Since then I've been topping up daily with an average (lately) of around 150-250 ml, sometimes less, and constantly trying to build supply to get to a point where I can EBF.
Suddenly, at 12 weeks, DD is much more dissatisfied at the breast than normal (virtually every daytime feed now lasts just a few minutes; nighttime is fine and the first one or two of the day are usually OK too) and needs more bottle top-ups. When I try to express to compensate I can see that my meagre supply has dried up, as the amount I can express at any one time has dramatically diminished (by a half to two thirds).
I don't know what can have caused the change. It happened quite suddenly when we arrived in England from the continent for the Christmas holidays.
I had been hoping to use the holidays for one last effort to revert to EBF before resigning myself to mixed feeding for ever after, but it seems the opposite is happening!
Any ideas/advice?
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Chronically low milk supply all but dried up in week 12
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Yika · 23/12/2010 22:03
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