Too late to build milk supply after 3 months combi feeding ?

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Hello ladies

Is it too late to up my milk supply now? I have combi fed from about 4 weeks. My little one is good on the breast but my milk seems to get less by the evening to the point he's nappy's aren't very heavy at all unless I top him up with milk.

He has about4-5 bottles a day and breast feeds probably every 2-3 hours too. Through the night he feeds on me only and all morning until early afternoon. It's from late afternoon info the evening I seem to dry up.

Is it too late for me to switch to fully breast? What can I do to help this if I even can ? Has anyone successfully done this before on here?

Thanks x

Not too late!
milk supply increases the more baby is fed so either offer the breast even just for comfort suckling in the evening, or pump a few times. After a few days you’ll notice your supply has increased! Awesome job on combi feeding so far :) if you are hoping to switch to solely breast I would reduce amount of milk in bottle by very small amounts gradually, offer more breast as and when.

I wanted to keep up breast feeding when I went back to work at 11 months & although I had a pump which I used occasionally it wasn't that effective. I rented a hospital grade double pump from Medela & it increased my supply massively. I would really recommend it.

@Tinyant @AvocadoSurprise thank you both ! I'll try my hardest to get supply up. I have a manual pump that I haven't ever used so I'll start with that today and look at some electric ones

Also he seems full of my milk and content but he's nappy's are only half as full. I don't know if this means he will loose weight I'm just a bit worried about him dropping centile if I switch

Hey, just wondering if you were able to ebf?

@Mary20200 i know you asked OP for an update. Are you in a similar situation?

I combo fed my twins in the early days, gradually dropped bottles and totally stopped them by 5 months except for one in the evening - I kept that one so someone else could feed them while I read with eldest DD. I foundbottles rather a faff! All worked out fine, no issues with supply.

Hey, thank you for you reply! My son had a tongue which got snipped at 7 weeks although he was gaining weight he always wanted more but couldn’t drain my breasts. Since he was 8 weeks we’ve been giving him 1 or 2 ounces after a feed. Maximum he has is 6oz in a day. He’s 3 months now and has decided he doesn’t like bottles which is really difficult as his latch still isn’t the greatest. Breastfeeding is still a daily battle and I want to give up every day but I would feel so guilty. Forcing him to drink from a bottle is Sucha headache so I’m thinking of ditching the top ups and just letting him feed on me to up my supply. Hopefully I can go back to ebf.

If has only having 2oz at a time I bet you could just drop it. Just do it! Your supply will adapt in a day or two and if he's only having to do one kind of latch you might find he sorts it out a bit more quickly