Is it possible that expressing can get more milk than my baby can?

[Booper13]

I'm aware that the opposite is supposed to be true (baby can get more milk than expressing can), but I am finding that my bf baby will feed for 5 to 10 mins, then come off and cry with hunger. When I try to latch him back on, he will suck a few times and then cry. I then swap him to other breast and the same thing happens. I then need to give him a top up as he is distraught and still hungry. I then express as am paranoid about compromising my supply (I use a double Ameda breast pump hired from NCT)and always get a couple of ounces out. Can the pump get milk my ds can't?? I'm v confused. DS is 13 weeks and we have worked so hard to bf and seemed to be doing well until this started last week. I posted about this before, but now wonder if there is any possibility that the pump is more effective than DS. I really don't want to stop bf and with expressing I am getting pretty much enough for the top ups but do need some formula (always have needed 3 - 5 ounces per day of formula as it took quite a while to get bf established and despite all my efforts of frequent bf and double expressing, I never quite made it to exclusive bf).
Any help, suggestions and advice very gratefully received as I am fearing this is the beginning of the end which makes me v sad.
Thanks xxx

Ah now that sounds more like a slow let down issue to me - the baby suckles yummy mummy milk. Then it stops and he is supposed to carry on suckling to stimulate more let down but instead he pulls off and yells with frustration.

You can try putting warm wet flannels on or stroking your breasts first to encourage letdown or trying the football hold because then the baby milks the breast more effectively.

I had this for a while but 1 side only, it's hard but just persevere with offering the breast.
Could there be other reasons he is not feeding well? Uncomfortable? Your diet?
Hopefully a bfc will spot this thread and help.
Have you tried speaking to a LLL or NCT breast feeding counsellor?

sorry that wasn't v clear - the milk stops after a few minutes, is let down, then more comes out and so on. Not the baby stops it.

when he cries, try swapping sides. swap as often as you like until he is refusing both.

i think many babies behave like this at that age.

your body is always making milk so by the time you attach yourself to a pump, your body has already supplemented some of what he took.

Hi
My 16 week old has been doing the same for the past few weeks. I was very over supplied at the beginning and I think now that things have settled down she gets very impatient when the milk doesn't gush into her! I switch to the other boob and then back again and that seems to stimulate a second let down. If I let her cry too long before doing that tho - she gets so upset she won't feed at all. I get fussed too becuase I worked so hard to slow things down that I don't really want to speed it all back up again by feeding on both sides at every feed....Is all such a mystery to me!