Please help me...thank u

[sufiya]

hello..i'm new here. i have 5 month's old baby boy. he's bottlefeed and b/feed sometimes when he wanted to (maybe he's nipple confused since i had nipple sore once and i'm a working mother). my milk is getting very low in supply and i decided to express milk to exchange with formula milk. can i start to produce more milk now? how? tq

I'm no expert, but had similar probs once my dd started to have bottles of formula as well as breast. She now has all bottles. Probably the only way you can get your supply back up is to drop the bottles and start to breastfeed exclusively again along with pumping after to keep stimulating if you need to top baby up with formula. Good luck xx

As your baby grows he needs more milk. Even with ebf babies, supply drops and the baby seems to have a few hungry days. The best way is to just feed on demand for a couple of days and let him feed as long as he wants at each feeding. As you are working, that will be tough. Perhaps use the weekend. Don't plan much, and let him feed away. Once your supply is up, keep the pumping up. Good luck

Yes - breastfeed as much as you possibly can, it's the only real way to get your milk up. The alternative would be to express every half hour.

Agree with the other posters - your supply should increase with demand. Would also post in the Feeding section as you will get some great advice there.