How to increase supply after illness

[SassyPants87]

DS is 10 weeks old with a horrible cough and blocked nose. Understandably he hasn’t been feeding all that well and my supply has reduced. I tried pumping today and only got 40ml from both breasts!

what can I do to increase supply? I’m putting baby to breast often, drinking lots of water and drinking fennel and fenugreek tea. Any advice would be great! Thank you!

First, what you express is no indication of supply. Even the best pump is no match for baby.

The only way to increase supply is to feed baby / remove milk.

At 10 weeks your supply is quite established and will be able to adjust to baby's needs quite quickly. You might find baby cluster feeds a bit now they're better.

No need for the teas or extra water. It makes no difference.

IIRC the more baby feeds the more milk produced. Night feeds built my supply up after taking a week off with suspected cmpa. I've never able to express much but there's always enough milk for ds on the boob
Congratulations on your little one!

@Twizbe oh really!? I’ve been an absolute sucker for breastfeeding teas! Eeek!

@twoandcooplease i was thinking night feeds but he’s mastered 8/9 hour stretches of sleep at night and I’m thankful for my sleep at night now and as you can imagine really don’t want to disrupt this haha!