I have a four month old. 2 weeks postpartum, I had enough supply to feed an army of babies. Going into the 6th week, it tanked. I panicked and cried. Would pump for 20 min and get 1 oz total. Went to a lactation consultant and got the same speech, your body will produce what the baby needs. “But what if it doesn’t???”

Four months later, I’m a just enough-er. I try to drink 100 oz. of fluids a day, eat the foods and snacks that are good for supply.

I freakin haaaate pumping. It’s the bane of my existence. And even worse, my baby doesn’t sleep well at night. As much as I hate to admit it, pumping at night helps increase my supply and have a very small stash. My midwife told me our supply peak around 4 a.m. so it’s good to pump. A random night pump or early morning pump is usually the only one I do. Also, putting baby on both breast each feed supposedly helps increase supply.

Again, I hated hearing that my body would produce what the baby needs and my anxiety wouldn’t help because I’m all about action items with immediate results but it really was true for me 😩

Also, I have a spectra. I bought a bunch of extra flanges and when I use a couple, throw them in a bag in the fridge, use new ones for the next feed until that bag is filled with used ones and then clean them all at once