Question about breast milk...

[hareem01]

Re: Question about breast milk…

@Spiral

why do some women get almost no milk? When my baby was born, I had no milk supply for few days. I pumped and pumped to help the milk come down. baby wasn’t interested in latching, LC tried and gave up. He would scream in the nursery which was pretty embarrassing. So got home.. pumped.. the most I ever got was an ounce. No more. I used nipple shields to teach him how to suck then eventually my own nipples. I would put him for hours on my breast hoping it will increase milk supply.. but umm no. I gave up after a month of trying. I was tired, frustrated, he was not interested and started the whole crying, screaming thing again. I had not choice but to completely stop breastfeeding. Of course if I had enough milk, he wouldn’t have done that. Now after two months (he is three months now). I have just few drops that too if I squeeze. Pumping doesn’t help. I drank Mother’s Milk tea, had fenugreek seed capsules and I pump when I have time to stimulate the breast. Everything failed. I really really want to establish that one ounce I was getting. That was better than not getting anything. According to my mom, the way I tried and kept putting my baby to my breast, if there was another women she would’ve gotten rivers of milk. My doctor said the pumping is too artifical for your breast and it doesn’t get stimulated. Ever heard of that??? I am so tired and I feel like I fail as a mother. I don’t know what else I could do. And no formula isn’t the same thing as breast milk, I don’t believe that. I feel like you ladies are so lucky to have milk. Why isn’t it like that with me?

It happened to my cousin’s wife, she tried really hard but it just didn’t work out for her.

I remember with the first baby, in first few days only few drops were coming out and I was kinda worried and actually tried out the formula milk but then the midwife told me that for new born babies even a teaspoon is enough as long as you feed them every 20 or 30 minutes.
I know some people don’t recommend breast pumps, they prefer the natural way which is suckling". But if you’ve tried that already and it still didn’t work out then don’t feel bad about it.