Surely the more you express, the more you produce?

[Reluctant2ndtimer]

Have been told by breastfeeding peer supporter that she was an over producer and had to express off 3-4 oz of foremilk before feeding her ds as she had too much and he needed to get to the hind milk. I thought production was based on consumption so am now confused.

hmmm, sounds a bit suspect too... maybe she had things poorly explained to her? Check out kellymom.com for info on fore/hind milk and oversupply. You are right that expressing would add to oversupply, maybe she didn't realise this and so was exacerbating the problem unknowingly. Was she of an older generation?

I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but actually, this is a way of coping with the effects on the baby of over-supply (which can be spluttery feeds, and sometimes uncomfortable tummies).

She expresses off a load of milk, and then the baby removes the rest, which allows the baby to get a smaller volume of fattier milk (as opposed to a larger volume of less fatty milk). If she then 'block nurses' by putting the baby on this breast again and again, every time he wants it, within the next three, four, five hours, and then does the same with the next side after that (expressing off the first few oz), supply does settle down and the baby is less uncomfortabe...normally I would not expect a mother to have to express off the earlier milk for longer than a few days, if at all. If she was doing it routinely over a period of time, I would also wonder if she was making the problem worse, not better.