dear all breastfeed mummy,

i had dilemma here. i gave birth to a baby boy last month and i successful yo breastfeed him the whole confinement month. i am happy when i manage to pump out 5 - 8 ounce each time at 3 hour gap. but my supply become very very less which is 1 - 3 ounce make me feel much disappointed. my mil and mother ask me to stop breast feed when i get back to work. their reason is I had to take care what i need to eat right like cooling food, heaty and poisonous food. mainly of the hawker food is using some of the big part bone to cook soup base where is consider as "poison" to baby.

during night time, my baby milk consumption is very large amount until i am not enough to breast feed him. plus i had to take care of him at night which make me had no time for pumping at all. i do try drinking dom after expressing mik, but after that 2 hours gap my milk does smells like DOM. so i dare not to give to my baby. plus, my urine smells like DOM also. what can i do to increase my milk supply?? my breast also become soft and saggy type. i did not feel any milk gland on them which i always feel engorge during my confinement month.

i feel like i am getting useless and disappointed and not a fully success breastfeed mummy. Please help.

hi,

the poison that i mentioned like ray fish, mackeral fish, and all kind of hawker soup bases... is not that poison from chemical.........

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Added on November 4, 2011, 2:27 pmnickit, phythia79, qarezma and all mummy,

yesterday i do try to take DOM, but a slight amount only than recommended. this morning i manage to pump back that amount during my confnrment, 7 ounce. then 3-4 ounce every 3 hour gap. so happy......

for breastfeeding, of course i am determined to provide full supply for my baby. but i found out my supply went down drastically after my confinement period which makes me worry. i try to eat much carbs, protein, and fiber, drink more milk and take vitamins folic acid yet my supply still low for the last few daysss.. and my breast become very very soft, no engorgement. eventhough i keep on pumping nothing coming out..



This post has been edited by pigrabbit: Nov 4 2011, 02:27 PM

wow! your wife has much supply of breast milk. why do she plan to stop?

i always hope that i have abundance supply of milk, but none.

you should continue to support her to bf.