I was no longer breastfeeding around the clock and
began producing less milk to accommodate for supply and demand.
Not exact matches
Otherwise, your body will think you are trying to wean and you'll naturally
begin to
produce less milk.
If you get more
milk from one breast (which almost all moms do), pump that side that makes
less milk for a longer time and / or put baby to that breast at the
beginning of feedings more frequently to
produce more
milk.
Just 36 hours after childbirth, your breast
milk starts to transform; you
begin producing «mature»
milk, which contains more lactose and
less sodium, chloride and immunoglobulins, and your
milk production increases significantly to accommodate your growing baby.
Your breasts may
begin to
produce colostrum, which contains a high amount of protein and
less sugar and fat than breast
milk.
You have BF mothers stressed and worked up (and probably
less able to
produce milk) and those who were at the
beginning stages, neither formula or breast activists, simply trying to find help and information, losing
milk supply, finding themselves in the category of those who think they couldn't breastfeed because they weren't supported but rather lost their supply in the battle to recruit them!