Milk drying up
How can you tell if your supply is drying?
Here are some things I’ve noticed.
I’m currently 6m strong ebf. No pumping, bottle feeding nothing.
- no more leaking. I used to leak like crazy and it’s recently stopped. I know it’s not an indication, it could mean my supply has regulated but it’s what I’ve noticed
- my boobs are extremely soft, softer than usual. Even if I go longer without feeling they don’t feel full AT ALL.
- she’s always been a distracted either as she gets older it gets worse. she’s never been able to fully finish a feed, so I feel like it’s causing me to produce less.
- she gets frustrated and cries because my let down is extremely slow. I usually have to squeeze and wait a bit for it to start flowing. I never had this problem at all until recently.
- I use to squeeze my nipples and an extreme amount of milk would come out, now when I do hardly nothing.
- she hasn’t fully started solids yet, she just turned 6m a week ago. Every now & then she gets a meal but it’s not a set routine yet.
- she doesn’t really feed at night anymore maybe 1-3 times.
- her diapers are never full tbh. I change 4-5 diapers a day, they’re always light/medium.
- she’s never had a problem with weight, she weighed 18lbs at her checkup
- I would like to breastfeed until she’s a year. Nothing stressful has been happening, I don’t get my periods I guess from BF. I eat normal/ and normal water intake.
Advice?? I know some woman Randomly stop producing and it has always been my fear. What can I do??? I don’t think it’s a temporary dip in my supply it’s been happening for about 2-3 weeks.
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