Diminishing Milk Supply

You are stressed about this. As your child is more than six weeks, do the best you can. Breastfeeding is a lovely thing to do, but it may not fit into your lifestyle. Continue pumping/breastfeeding as long as you are comfortable. The fact that you've breastfed your baby at all is a good thing and nothing to feel guilty about when you slow down/switch to formula. My daughter was breastfed longer than I was and we are both healthy people. Some friends were not able to breastfeed and their children are fine. It was harder for the moms vs. the babies. If you find that pumping is making you feel resentful (which I did-in the end I referred to it as "pump liberation") just move on to maximizing your time to enjoy your child and keeping yourself balanced. A less stressed mommy is a better parent. Good luck. Your child is fortunate that you care enough to really consider this matter.
 
as suggested by my lactation consultant, i drink lot of fish soup with papaya, take the fenugreek seed capsules daily (for 1 months now), and sometimes have some mother's milk tea if i want something to go with my cookies in the afternoon. my supply really goes up, i used to express 2-3 oz, now 6-7 oz and sometimes 9 oz. and my daughter used to only nurse for 5- 10 min, now she can nurse for 20-25 mins, i guess these reli works. but both my lactation consultant and i feel that we should continue with all these. and i 'm happy with that,
but dont forget to nurse frequently even you are taking these supplements, so now, for every feed, i nurse my daughter on one breast while expressing the other, then i give her the expressed top up milk (she doesnt have the patient to empty even one breast)
one last thing, mothers milk tea is sometiems out of stock, i'd usually get a feew boxes when i see them. and the fenugreek seed capsules, they are reli reli difficult to get. and its quite expensive, anyways, i think it works for me
 
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