Let me start off my saying my son is 8 months old, I breastfed him with supplementing formula for a month. Our Elijah was born via c section on March 13th at 4:32am on a Tuesday due to wrapped umbilical cord and dropped heart rates during contractions. The first almost 2 days he was strictly breastfed because that’s what we wanted to do. By Thursday he still acted hungry even before the 3 hour mark, as the doctors suggested I feed him every 3 hours for as long as he would eat. He acted so hungry even after I fed him for 30 minutes. But by squeezing my breasts I had more colostrum in the right side but not much the left, they suggested the amount seemed fine. So they offered to supplement formula until my milk came in to feed him to satisfaction because he was loosing weight too quickly, he was 7 lbs and 0.9 ounces and dropped to 6lbs and 1/2 pounds by day two. I agreed because I felt ashamed that my baby was hungry and I couldn’t seem to satisfy him. And then we got to go home on Friday after our doctor released us because he was eating formula well and they told me to keep pumping and then breastfeed every 3 hours. Pump before feed so he could “clean out the rest” to help my supply. The only acception was I come back the next day for weigh in. By Saturday I was finally getting milk, I remembered staying up half the nights just pumping in hopes I could get something out but the pump didn’t even work up until Saturday as far as removing anything, I began to get around 2 ounces each breast by early Sunday. Mornings were best because I felt full but it almost seemed to me after that first morning pump my supply was even lower than that. I just halfway breastfed and halfway supplemented formula the first 4 weeks. It got frustrating because he was constantly hungry. I could feed him every hour for 30 minutes, and he would still whine. I felt like I wasn’t doing enough. So it didn’t take me long to not care how much I was producing, he stayed hungry. But also by week 3 he was vomiting forcefully, I thought it was supposed to be normal for babies to vomit as he is my first. He ended up being diagnosed with pyloric stenosis on week 4 and had surgery on his 5 week birthday. I’m stuck between enjoying my breast feeding to finding it hard and frustrating and between not producing enough to satisfy his hunger cues I gave up and went formula. It took months for me to almost completely dry up. And now we’re pregnant again (16 weeks) with another boy. So my fear again, is not producing enough for the next baby. I really would like to try again but I want it to work better. I wish it could be less disappointing and easier. But maybe I just need a woman from my point of view to enlighten me on their tips to success. Elijah will be a year old and one month when our next is born and I’m not sure if it will even be more stressfull trying to breastfeed and take care of a toddler when daddy’s at work. I also plan on working at my job again after 8 weeks of leave. I had two friends who had a baby along side me around the same age who had no issues breastfeeding as they said their supplies were good, they could “shoot milk across a room” or had bags frozen in the freezer while I struggled to even feed him what I had and have extras. It got a little better after a week but my supply I feel was less than normal and I longed to have more than an extra 5 ounces stashed in the fridge. For you women who struggled, what did you do to help your supply and frustration? I really want it to work out this time. But I feel so discouraged. Any help and tips would be appreciated. I’m sorry my post was long.