Loss of supply caused by expressing?

[Myribena]

Has anyone experienced their milk supply coming to a stop due to feeding with ebm only? I've been feeding by bottle for a couple of weeks but now being told by HVs that I will lose my milk if I don't breastfeed directly. One HV said it's due to insufficient stimulation another said it's because the baby is needed to produce oxytocin. I am really frustrated as we were happily breastfeeding on demand when we left hospital, as directed by neo natal. The HV then told me I would have to stick to a 3 hourly pattern and top every feed up with a bottle, which is why I gave up bf in the first place as I couldn't do that plus pump every three hours without confining us all to the house and forgoing all sleep I don't know whether to worry about this, or if it's just their way of keeping babies on the breast.

[coral13]

I had read about this and it came up in convo with my sister who is a neonatal nurse who deals with very very premature babies. She said it's rubbish and they encourage all of their mums to express milk for their baby and to keep their supply up (the babies are too sick at the time to actually breastfeed).

[Courtney2020]

My baby is currently in the neonatal ward born at 31 weeks and they tell me to express every 3 hours roughly to build up my supply and keep it up as I want to breastfeed once he is able to feed from me directly at the moment he gets my breastmilk through a feeding tube xx