Possibly a daft question...
If I'm expressing and hardly anything is coming out, is it still worth doing? As presumably it's still helping increase milk production by signalling milk is required? I
Background: newborn DS was feeding well and I felt I had enough milk and all was ok. Then he lost some weight and I had a panic and startered giving formula. Which has now affected my supply. He's put the weight back on, and is now gaining steadily and I want to reduce the formula and gradually get back to just breastfeeding. (He's 4 weeks old now).
I'm annoyed at myself for not trusting my instincts in the first place but I can't just suddenly stop formula as he'll be hungry/lose weight. So I'm breastfeeding as much as he'll take and then expressing in between, but it's demotivating expressing without much to show for it!
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Expressing to boost supply
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soundsystem · 28/02/2017 07:59
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