to be confused about breast milk production?

[Marteena]

Been breastfeeding for 7 weeks.

One boob is huge and produces a lot of milk. Another is smaller and produces far less. I've tried expressing. Offering that boob first. Still nothing. It hardly produces any. Normal? I'm so lopsided and look awful. Almost 3 cup sizes difference... :(

Also, can you produce more milk at different times? At night my left boob seems to produce a shed load of milk. My DS chokes and gets upset every evening because there seems to be SO MUCH milk. It squirts everywhere but only in the evening after about 5pm. Normal?

Not sure what's going on. What's normal. Really stressed out...

Yes this is all so normal. With both dc I had one boob that produced more and they seemed to favour. Weirdly it was a different boob for each of them! But with hindsight I’d say they had a better latch on one side than the other so subconsciously I ended up favouring that side. Bf is the best example of supply and demand there is so I ended up with one better boob each time.

Can you get to a bf group, somewhere you can chat to a peer supporter or even a bf counsellor? Being able to talk to someone about what you’re going through and share experiences can be so valuable.

I ended up lopsided as following a bout of mastitis, I ended up with agonising vasospams on one side so I ended up feeding 2:1 on each side. I'm normally a B but go up to an F when feeding, so the reduction of supply made me shrink noticably.

Oddly the "good breast" for DS2 was the opposite of DS1, which may have been down to their techniques.

Supply tends to be higher in the evening which explains the cluster feeds around growth spurts.