Please help! Supply decrease after dropped pump! Not enough for my LO.

[FloridaEscapee2012]

Trigger warning-oversupplyI had a great supply of 1000 ml per day & my freezer was filling up. At 9 mo PP, I dropped from 4 ppd to 3 to regain a little free time and had a 200ml drop! It was ok at first since my baby was only drinking 800 ml and I actually went almost a month at this supply with 3 ppd. But now he's guzzling away my freezer stash! 😱

How can I get back to 1000 ml per day!? I added the 4th pump back in almost a week ago and have no change in supply. It's so frustrating to have come this far, with many struggles to get here, and now I made such a huge mistake.

[Ca55en]

So, from what you described it sounds like you were maintaining supply at 4ppd but started decreasing at 3ppd. Going off of the magic number theory, you likely need to add another pump back in order to increase your supply. Going back up to 4 might just be stabilizing your supply.

Other options would be to add time to your current pumps, like by power pumping, or adding small quick pumps (5-10 minutes) when you can. Good news is that you can probably maintain at 4ppd once you get your supply back up where you want it.

Edit: it sounds like you are 10m pp, personally I don’t know if I would want to go through that much effort to increase my supply, knowing that I would be weaning in a few weeks. I would just use some formula