Supply issues and toddler feeding

[Alexahelp]

Hello,

I’m still feeding my 15 month old 2/3 times a day. She naturally night weaned herself at around 12 months but is still very keen for morning, bedtime and sometimes afternoon feeds if I’m with her. I’m happy to carry on feeding until c 2 years if she wants.

The last few weeks she’s been frustrated and switching back and forth between boobs in the morning - I’m clearly not producing as much as she wants. I can’t up the frequency of feeds (work). Not sure what the answer is - if she continues demanding more in the morning can I expect supply at that point to increase back up again or should I accept that I’ll need to offer her alternative milk? I had expected that I’d have a lower supply than in the early days of course, but still as much as she requests.
TIA

Hi @Alexahelp,

We're just bumping this thread for you. Hopefully some Mumsnetters will be along soon with some advice and support.

Hi there, feeding my two and a half year old - day and night, still so hopefully I can be of some help.

Breastfeeding seems always to be supply and demand.

If you are low, they put the orders in, production increases. So really your supply should increase as long as you let her do the swapping and changing and as many feeds as she wants.

My Toddler can now tell me what's going on with my milk supply. Tonight she told me "milk not coming out" my supply seems to be affected negatively by stress, dehydration and dieting which I started 3 days ago, so will up the water and food the next few days and that usually sorts the issue

As long as none of the above is the case for you, your supply should catch up within a day or two.

Rest assured as well that your supply won't have suddenly dipped for no reason - by 15 months it is very well established. If it doesn't catch up quickly you may need to just up your water intake and check you are receiving all of the vitamins your body needs