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Comment by Subrina Chowtie on September 17, 2012 at 6:34pm

Thank you bright777

Comment by Bright777 on September 17, 2012 at 5:28pm

I wouldn't throw out the mil either! Give him everything you have :) If you start ta*ing allergy medicine and OTC meds for runny nose you will dry up faster. Try phenylephrin and psudoephedren. The second one you have to as* for because they regulate it. Its in the Mucinix D.

Comment by Subrina Chowtie on September 17, 2012 at 10:45am

Thank you Jessica

Comment by Jessica Coram on September 17, 2012 at 9:27am

Hi Subrina - I remember what it was like being a first time mom.  I exclusively pump so I'm not an expert on lowering milk supply, but one thing my lactaction consultant told me was to drop one pumping session no sooner than every three days so you don't get engorged.  I'm in the process right now and I'm planning to drop a pumping session once a week.  Also, there's nothing wrong with still feeding your baby frozen breastmilk until you run out.  You worked hard for it - I wouldn't waste it!  You may want to search the discussions for more answers to your post, I remember a really good one in there.  Good luck!

Comment by Leah on September 16, 2012 at 8:09pm

I always pumped and fed my baby to get my supply up. And making sure I drink a lot of water and eat right! Whatever was left over from feeding I would save and eventually it would build to where I could feed my baby til full and 2 hrs later pump, then 2 hours after that I would nurse, etc. it was only for a couple of weeks and I had a freezer full of milk!

Comment by Subrina Chowtie on September 16, 2012 at 3:47am

Hello everyone, I breastfed my baby for,the first 3 weeks after birth, I started to pump before he turned one month old, he is now almost 4 months old, I want to stop breastfeeding/pumping, I want to give him formula exclusively. I should add that since he was born he has ben given both formula and breastmilk because I had issues with my supply. My question is, how do I stop my milk supply? Is tjere an easy/painless way? Also, should,i continue to give my baby breastmilk or should I stop completely/ throw out milk tjat I pumped. Thank you for reading, I'm a first time mom and pretty much doing most of it by myself.

Comment by Ms G. on September 8, 2012 at 2:23am

Hi my baby is 11 weeks old now. When he was born and for the whole first month I produced a lot of milk. He would latch on easily. But then slowly I began to produced less milk so I noticed my son wasn't getting full at each feeding. So I started using formula as well. Now he has a hard time latching on cause of the bottle feedings with the formula. He likes the bottle more than my breast now. I'm also producing a lot less milk. I want to know how can I produced more so I can pump and store it and theb bottle feed it to him any tips that work plz help ;) I'm using my first year breast pump by the way.

Comment by Christi Koehn on August 9, 2012 at 1:02pm

Our son is 3 months old and has had breastmilk exclusively.  I had to come back to work 7/23 and have been pumping about 3 times a day at work to keep my supply up.  I have a Ameda Purely Yours pump.  Just recently it started to become uncomfortable and I was having a hard time expressing all my milk so after talking with a lactation consultant she advised that I might need larger flanges.  So they are out for delivery today and I can hardly wait to try them. So all that being said always refer to a lactation consultant if you are having any trouble becuase you may not even think of what might be the problem or have a clue to the answer!  I have a pretty decent store of breast milk in our deep freeze and so far have been able to stay about a week ahead of demand for daycare.  I bought some rubbermaid bottles to keep fresh expressed breast milk in and I rotate them throughout the week.  I keep a chart of milk expressed this day will be good through this day!  I am literally obsessed!  Just keep pumping just keep pumping!

 

Comment by Kaci Bartchak on July 10, 2012 at 9:43pm

Ok ladies, got some help with my low supply issues. I have rented a Medela
Symphony pump and continue to eat oatmeal 3 times a day. Also, per my lactation consultants advice, I have stopped taking my birth control "mini pill" which does in fact affect your supply. Don't let a doctor tell you otherwise. They only know what the pill manufacturer is telling them. So I have now been off of it for 3 days and I am pumping with the magic two-phase pump every 2.5-3 hours and I'm already seeing an increase! I'm so excited. Thanks everyone for all your advice!

Comment by Jessica Coram on June 27, 2012 at 9:25am

Hi Kaci - how often are you pumping?  I've heard the best way to build up supply is to simulate demand and pump every 1.5 - 2 hours (including sometimes at night), and that's from start to start, not including time pumped.  I hope it works out for you, Good luck!!!

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