Re: my milk has gone away!

Originally Posted by
@llli*momaplus5
sometimes i cant get her to even last a couple hours and if i try to feed her theres like almost nothin for her to drink.
i agree with all the advice yo u've been given here, just wanted to chime in on this: you really SHOULDN"T be "trying to get her to last". remember boobs are not bottles; they continually fill, and the way to get them to fill more is by emptying them more. getting babies to wait between feeds so there's more milk when they eat DOES NOT WORK, in fact, tells your body to make LESS milk. so just keep putting her to the breast, switching sides, nurse whenever she seems to want it or is unhappy for ANY reason, even if it's been just 5 mins since she last nursed.
i'm so glad to see you're still hanging in there with this, and i would be $20 that, when you turn the corner on learning how to do this - for lots of people it gets way easier around 8-9 weeks, and then again around 3-4 months - you are going to be SO THANKFUL you're nursing instead of doing bottles/formula, because it's just so much easier. and that'll free you up to hang with your other children. it is so worth it to be persistent now!
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