Increasing supply

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Bought a new pump the other day, DD is 4 and a half months and my supply has been pretty rubbish - I had a difficult birth and didn’t feel able to breastfeed much for the first few weeks.

I’ve not been using the pump a lot, just a
couple of times a day, but today I’ve been super emotional (and I think I did have more milk than usual this morning). Could the slight increase in milk supply be making me tearful and anxious?

I think that it very well could be

One tip I read recently was to put a baby sock over the bottle as you express. Apparently if you can't see how much your expressing, you are likely to be less stressed and therefore produce more