Anyone else out there who doesn't produce enough milk?

[babbler]

Hi I have a 4 month old son, and always planned to breast feed fully from the minute he was born.I was very fortunate he latched on properly from the start. However after 2 weeks of this the poor little mite had lost about 11oz of weight. The midwife then made me feel so inadequate as a mother by showing through expressing the milk i had that I was only producing a few mls. I was devistated, tried everything to produce more milk but couldn't. I had to give my baby formular, which he is stioll on and thriving on it, but still giving the breast at every feed, in the hope of giving him something good from me.Anyone else had the same experience, because i feel alone in this, and get upset when i see mums breast feeding fully when out.

You can definitely turn it around with another baby! I did too . I wouldn't be surprised if the storgae capacity could be reset with each baby, on the other hand, each baby is different and may have different feeding 'style'. I certainly would't have liked to have been told 'you don't produce enough milk', but on the other hand, I didn't like being poo-pooed when I said that I felt I wasn't producing much milk. I think the problem isn't so much what people say, as those bldy charts. Dd gained at her own sweet slow rate, which bore virtually no relationship to the charts - thank goodness for my sensible and supportive HV.