Mama Milk: A Breastfeeding Mums Story
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I will give it everything I have and throw every resource I am given at this challenge. We have had the most supportive doctors, lactation consultants and midwives. But they have only heard of women with my struggles. They have never actually come across it themselves. Understandably, they have a hard time believing you at first. Eventually your baby knows that it is easier to get nourishment from a bottle than from you. He starts to get frustrated, crying every time you pull him to you. He will choose the easier option.
That is where we are now. I nurse when he is willing and pump every chance I get. He is now six months old and I am praying for more time. I would like to at least get through the winter and cold season.
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I am hopeful that we will make it to one year. Pumping many times a day leaves you in a constant state of discomfort. It can eat up hours per day, leaving your home in a state of chaos. I have mastered the art of relaxing through pumping while reading to my toddler. At times I want to give up. It is then that my husband encourages me. I see a bottle full of my milk and know it is worth it.
After exploring many different reasons for a low milk supply, I am currently researching hormone imbalance. Now we are looking into my progesterone levels, specifically while I am pregnant, which I am not. So we will wait until, Lord willing, I am pregnant again to test those levels. We will continue our search for the why behind it all.
If anyone is interested in sharing their nursing stories — victories or defeats — and especially any resources that helped you, please contact me.
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I am wife to Stewart, mama of five, homeschooler, messy cook, and avid fermenter. This is where I tell our story I was not able to breast feed due to low milk supply. My son cried for two weeks straight when he was born. I kid you not — straight. I will say they are all extrememly healthy children regardless.
I did not run out of milk, but I did worry about having a low supply, and though it eventually evened out I can remember the fear and stress. It must have been excruciating. I am so sorry about your milk, and tho it is the best source, one of the big purposes of breastfeeding is to promote attachment, and your commitment to your child and determination to do what is best for him admirable. I am sure that is what will endure thru much more than just breastfeeding, and is undoubtably even more valuable and nourishing to your child than breastmilk. While I was able to fully breastfeed both of my first 2 children, I know that I will absolutely not be able to breastfeed any more future children at all.
The idea of formula is so…well so many things at once. Scary, foreign, inferior and yet so very many perfectly happy healthy people were fed on formula. I struggled, I cried, I tried everything legal. Thank you for posting this. I totally could have written this post as well. I have the exact exact same story. I was actually planning to post my own journey in the next few days!
I supplemented both of them with a lact-aid. I also had to come to a place where I let go of trying to constantly increase my supply after months and months of trying every new miracle cure! Anyway, Hugs to You! This is exactly my story; I could have written it myself! Everything…including domperidone…but nothing worked. This probably stems from an underlying hormone imbalance…. Thank you so much for sharing your story and letting me know that I am not alone! I have had 3 children and have not yet been successful.
I am so grateful that you shared your story! When you are deficient in iodine, the thyroid cannot produce enough thyroid hormones. I felt like my body had failed me. In order to truly measure success, you must have a clearly defined, attainable goal set in the positive and centered on self. Here is what I shared on the other site:.
I too wonder daily if I did enough and feel guilty. Thanks again for sharing.
I will spare you all the details here, but I also know the heartbreak of low milk supply. Like you, I tried everything metoclopramide landed me in the emergency room and had great lactation consultants, moral support, etc. So thank you for sharing on this very emotional topic. Just look at all this response. I cannot believe there is a lactation consultant who has not worked with and yes, cried with a mom who does not make enough milk. I am probably a lactation consultant because I had all that bad advice with my first child.
Just feed, go to bed with the baby.
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I was nursing 20 out of 24 hours per day and he was crying when he was not nursing. To go to the doctor and find my child was losing so much weight was a day only those who have been there can feel. It is not about what you tried, it is about how much glandular tissue is there. What an amazing woman to keep giving all the breast milk you can to these babies. How blessed they are to have a mother like you.
All the herbs and medications will only help if your prolactin levels are low, not if the glandular tissue is not there. Some people do not make enough insulin, some have deficiencies in other hormones. We have bottles and formula. If you look back in literature, wet nurses have always existed. There have always been some women who could not fully feed their babies. My firstborn is 26 and I am still sad that he received a lot of formula, but I have turned my grief into helping women breastfeed and deal with issues that hinder breastfeeding. There is no limit to the love when the milk is limited and the babies are going to thrive on love and caring.
My first nursed very successfully til he was 16 mos and then quit cold turkey — a few months later I was pregnant with our little girl who is just now 5 weeks old.
So far, she is also doing quite well. Thanks for sharing your story! My mom was in the La Leche League in the s and she said low milk supply was extremely rare back then.
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She was shocked when I started having trouble with my milk supply when my baby was 4 mos old. I suspect trans fatty acids and soy. Soy is the bigger one that I am suspicious of. Almost everything has soy in it these days. Doughnuts, french fries and chips are fried in soybean oil. Animals are fed soy so the meat and dairy we eat is based on a soy diet. Soybean oil and soy lecithin is in almost all packaged foods. Like it or not, and whether we are aware of it or not, we are all eating a lot more soy today even if we never touch soy milk or soy margarine.
Iodine is stored in the thyroid, ovaries, and breast. If you eat too many goitrogens or consume other things like fluoride, bromide — in bread, and perchlorate — rocket fuel in our water , you will end up deficient in iodine. I think most people in America are idodine deficient. I found this statement on a website: I know someone who was having low milk supply and her naturopath suggested she supplement with iodine. Her milk really started to flow after she started taking that! Unfortunately I did not know about iodine when I was still breastfeeding. I had already stopped when Kate was 9 mos old.
And it was when she was around 12 mos old that I found out about iodine. If I were you, I would also get tested for iodine deficiency. I did it with Dr. Flechas he also tested me for the heavy metals:. He has me on 50 mg of iodine Iodoral per day for one year. In April we will retest again and he may drop my dosage if I am not deficient any longer.
More info on iodine deficiency: Regarding a low milk supply, I can relate to your heartache over it. I had the same problem mostly due to retained placenta and the subsequent removal of it. I pumped six times a day just to get the bare minimum of milk for my daughter. However, I found something early on to help me and I had great success — fenugreek.
I took six tablets in the morning and was engorged by mid-afternoon! After that I found my correct dosage, and it has the added benefit of making you smell like maple syrup. My husband used to walk around saying how much he craved pancakes all the time! I truly feel for you. I have a friend that is having low milk supply and I know from experience how it feels!
I wrote some post about my story in my blog in a way to share and get it out of my system and because I was always surfing the web for solutions and wanted to put in one place all I learned. I nursed my son now 5 until he was 1yr 4months if I remember well and I still remember his last nursing time…. Blood thinners and painkillers are not good for infants. First son was supplemented from birth, though I did nurse him until he was nearly two. Second son who is almost six months old has just started supplementation with homemade formula….
I am struggling with low supply with my first daughter who is now 10 weeks old. It took her 5 weeks to get back to her birth weight and she only reached it because of formula supplements.
The fact that a mom can nourish and grow her baby entirely from her own So we asked our moms to share the funniest breastfeeding stories. because he doesn't know if breast milk is bad for your eyes and if he will be ok. I have been coping with low breast milk supply and nothing was going right with me to boost it. I have used mother's milk tea, cookies and plenty of water but all.
My heart would break each time I would take her to the hospital for a weigh in and she was still under her birth weight. I was trying so hard but nothing was working. I felt like I had no support from the lactation consultants at the hospital. I went on reglan and it doubled my supply and I began pumping But it also came with side effects so I discontinued it.
My doctor said there is nothing else they could do or check… they would not do a thyroid check or anything else. I feel like they did not want to help me solve this mystery. I have not been officially diagnosed with low supply. I still have times of total breakdown where I cry as I wonder what my problem is. I am praying that I will be able to exclusively breastfeed my next baby. I am breastfeeding my daughter and then supplementing with formula at every feeding. I keep trying things as I hear of them.
Ladies, thanks for sharing your stories.
I have had low supply at times, not as severe as many of you. However I have been overwhelmed by feelings of failure at those times which makes it all worse because usually stress got me there in the first place. We all know breastfeeding is best for nutrition and bonding. We all are driven to be the best mothers we can.
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In addition to chronic low supply I have had 2 blebs for at least 4 months. I keep nursing on that side to keep supply up and try to stay calm and nuturing while nursing on that side but the pain is intense during and for several hours after. Hang in there everyone.
It is our nature to second guess ourselves bue we truly are all doing the best we can. Food and Drug Administration, mothers taking morphine or codeine drugs while breastfeeding should do so with extreme caution because their babies could overdose. The baby, whose name was Alexis, was 46 days old, he said.
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So, you fight little one. Are you crying yet?
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If not, buckle up, because this is where the real emotional sucker punch comes in. And if my milk can help in any way then it is my greatest pleasure. The hours I have spent pumping and cleaning and packaging this up for you is all worth it. And grow up to be amazing!