Have one super duper milky breast and one that can't be arsed ... any suggestions on evening out supply?

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Hello! Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.

DD is 2 weeks old. One breast has always been slightly bigger than the other and this is one that is producing lots of milk, from expressing between feeds I would say about 2 to 3 times as much. The other breast just isn't putting the effort in!

I am feeding off the less productive breast first at each feed (she always has both sides) and then going back to it at the finish and doing the same when expressing between feeds for top ups (my milk supply is generally poor, had some problem with DS) but supply just doesn't seem to be picking up.

To make things even better, the size difference of my norks is now, er, sizeable. Aside from increasing supply, I'd be interested in evening them up so I don't start leaning to one side.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Thanks Leonie. I'll have to rub some Dairy Milk on the rubbish one to encourage her to stay on

Hello, I had that too. Was my first dc, so I worried about it a lot (of course I did!). I asked the community midwife and she said that every woman she had seen that morning had asked her the same thing. She said that everybody is left/right breasted.

Starting with the less milky breast at every feed is the right thing to do, so far as I know. But I would say, given you're then finishing with it as well, it's not that surprising you're getting less when you try expressing between feeds, is it?

Hope things settle down a bit more for you soon. FWIW, DS went through a phase of preferring the other side. And now (13mo), I'm not really sure he has a preference.

I see your point IsItMe, but it was because of the uneveness and because I was getting so much less on expressing from one side that I started feeding twice from the poor side. I was hoping the higher demand would increase the supply (and the size! Not that I'm terribly vain about it, but, you know, a bit).

Oh no I have this too, it's very annoying!. I did the same as you but I'm afraid it never evened out properly (DD is now 15 months).On holiday last summer I was so paranoid wearing a bikini with one giant boob and one normal one!!! On the upside though, as I'm only feeding her at nightime now, the difference is much less obvious!!!

Oh dear it appears I am doomed to lean slightly to the left for ever more, weighed down by one gigantic knocker. At least I know I'm not the only one and not a freak of nature!

Same here- my left boob is fab and always has been, while my right one doesn't really earn its keep. I did try to even things up but nothing really worked. At 8.5 months I hardly use the right side now and I'm resigned to being lopsided for a while.

Me too - gigantic left boob and a teeny tiny right one, which still gamely lets down a token feed every few weeks despite the fact that DS hasn't bene near it for about a year. I just stick a chicken-fillet in my bra. OH calls them Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy! I'm not sure whether to laugh or extend my sympathies ... i certainly won't relay that to DH tho otherwise I can see mine being called that too.

Chicken fillet ahoy then