HI and congratulations on your new little one - you too, Trudi!....
Just putting my hand up as yet another poor milk-cow...
Don't know how much was due to underlying AI issues but it certainly wasn't helped by having a baby who was disinterested in feeding from the get-go. He was not a lot more interested in comp feeding or indeed solid food - now aged 17 and still has no real interest in food.
I tried everything to get my supply up - regular expressing, including setting an alarm and getting up in the middle of the cold dark night, took Maxolon and made goat's rue tea - luckily I have a big herb garden - both medicinal and decorative and just happened to have a healthy crop of it - tasted foul and nothing seemed to help pep up the supply.... wondered if I would have done better with a HUNGRY BABY.....???
Baby #2 was born at 33 weeks, so again I started with a baby who was not a strong sucker. I expressed religiously, she was eventually a slow and patient feeder, but not one of those piranhas that some of my friends had. Again I had to comp her from the early days and give up on the dwindling supply when she was 4 months (corrected age).
Certainly no lack of committment on my part - very disappointed...
My mother also struggled maintaing an adequate supply for all her 3 babies, as did my sister, yet we were all psychologically 110% committed to BF.
At the end of the day, you can only do what you can do and know that you gave your baby the best start that you could.
