low milk supply, and how to give colief

[Blakey1]

Hello

I have a 6 week old baby, and she has shown signs of colic, we tried Infacol for a week and it only seemed to work for a day, I have started to try Colief ( I know this is different, and breaks down the milk etc, whereas Infacol is for wind ) and it seems to work a treat. My problem is that the instructions say to express a few 'tablespoons' of milk and feed it to baby on a spoon before your normal feed. But for me, a few tablespoons would take at least half and hour to express and the baby is feeling very hard done by that her milk is already half gone before she even gets to my boob. At most I only ever express 1-2 oz.
Is there any other way I can give Colief to her, without expressing my milk? Would it be wrong to give her the Colief in a bit of formula first? Or is it really wrong to put a drop of the Colief on my nipple before she feeds?
Any ideas really welcome, I am very down about my low milk supply as it is and now thinking I cant give her the medicine that seems to work is really upsetting.

Thanks

Blakey, I think Colief has a consumer helpline telephone no. on the pack - you could call and ask them. I think your questions are very sensible - I don't understand why you'd have to express a lot of milk, for instance.

www.colief.com/faq.htm#9 says 'a few teaspoons' not tablespoons

Why do you think your milk supply is low, BTW?

I think my milk is low because if I express I am lucky to get 1oz - 1.5 is a really good day. I never had the feelings that other women talk about when the milk comes in, and I have no idea what the milk let down reflex is because my boobs dont really ever change. Very occasionally they feel full and ache, but thats only if I have a 4 hour gap between feeds.
If I pinch my nipple I can see a pin head of milk. I think its low because other women seem to have problems keeping it in and it dribbles about all over the place !

Thanks for you quick reply TikTok

None of those signs are signs of low milk supply, Blakey.

Plenty of women with massive milk supplies cannot express anything (a friend of mine with twins could never produce a drop); many women (inc me) rarely feel a letdown reflex; lots of women never leak.

Your only sure fire guide to milk supply is your baby - is she doing well on your milk? If so, your supply is just fine

thanks tiktok, i have to feed her now, i think shes doing well, she will be weighed on tuesday so that will be a good test

Blakey - I used to handexpress a few drops of bm onto a spoon and then add the colief to that. Only took a few mins so v quick and easy to do. Probably only used to express half a tsp.

Hi Deloola
Did you add 4 drops to half a teaspoon? That sounds easier - I've never hand expressed but will try...

Yes - think I added about 3-4 drops. All I did was squeexe my nipple and a few drops would come out - I never scientifically measured exactly how much bm I mixed.

If I was going to be out when dd needed a feed I'd just express a few mls into a container so I wouldn't have to faff around hand expressing (not that it was difficult just more likely to end up dropping spoon whilst balancing dd!)

thanks Deloola

All good advice, I will try tonight!