Ten days postpartum and my production is terrible. Many people will say you don't need to supplement because baby will get enough but that wasn't the case for my sweet angel. Extremely fussy and no wet diapers for over 13 hours on day 3 and again on day 4. I had to give her some formula. I couldn't watch my innocent baby suffer. But I have been pumping every 2-3 hours. Warm compression. Breast massages. Oatmeal. Mothers Milk Tea. Plenty of fluids. Still crappy production. If it is so natural, why is it so hard? The latching was the first issue now the production. My baby had no issues with taking a bottle so why with me? It makes you feel like a failure as a mother. I'm thankful for my husband because this is stressful and caused me to breakdown one evening after pumping barely 1/2oz. If it were up to me solely my baby would starve, and that thought brought me to tears. But my husband wrapped his arms around me, wiped my tears and encouraged me to continue. So here I am still at it, even though at the end I am sometimes shedding tears at the sight of my failures. She loves my milk. She frowns once we switch to the formula. It hurts me even more knowing I cannot give her what she wants. So I continue for her. And I do so thanks to the support of my wonderful husband. Even though this is the usual outcome

Natural yet extremely difficult to do. And completely out of my control 😢