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Please help if you can…..what could cause my milk supply to all but disappear in just 2 days

  • Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:24 am

I am breastfeeding a 6.5 mth old baby girl and had some supply probs around 3 mths. All sorted and has been fine for the last 3 mths.

2 days ago I didn’t have enough milk to feed her one feed, now I don’t have any for any feeds. Even the night feeds when I normally have an abundance….I have none.

I know my boobs and my daughter and I know I’m empty. I’m not ill, I’ve been eating and drinking normally, I’m tired but that’s normal.

What could cause me to ‘dry up’ in 2 days flat?

Please help if you can, I don’t want to give her formula but will have to soon if this keeps up as she’s not getting anything and is very hungry now.
She’s allergic to something in all the commercial formulas (we’ve not found out what yet) so she would have to have prescription formula from the drs. Isomil it’s called….anyone tried it?

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If my breastfeeding baby is drinking too much water from a sippy cup, will that affect my milk supply?

  • Posted on October 24, 2010 at 7:25 am

My husband has been pushing the sippy cup on our eleven-month old daughter lately. He wants her to learn how to use it. One day he managed to give her almost 100 ml.
This is a baby who has breast fed exclusively up until a couple weeks ago when the sippy cup was introduced – so no bottles, no formula, not ever. So she is very unaccustomed to drinking from the cup.
I have not been helping my husband teach her how to use the sippy cup much however, because I am afraid that if she consumes too much water in a day, that she will drink less more the breast, and that my milk supply will, in turn, go down.
This is an issue right now because she has been having dry diapers from time to time lately. I don’t know if it is because she has been sick, or because my milk supply is down, or a combination of the two.
So, I am wondering if giving her sippy cup is a good idea, or if it could make the situation worse.

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my brest milk supply dried up, how do i get it back?

  • Posted on September 22, 2010 at 5:23 am

my daughter is 6 months, and she stoped breast feeding for a week so i gave her the bottle. now she won’t take the bottle, she wants the breast, but i don;t have a milk supply. i tried drinking lots of water, but so far no luck, i need to feed my baby. i need help!

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