| Thank you very much for letting me know all of this because I wasn't aware. I just assumed the milk had "run out" because there was no longer the full feeling or leaking and I could barely express any milk either. But I keep on "feeding" baby because he has no problems to latch on. But the sucking and swallowing is for only a very short 2 - 3 minutes, and then it's just sucking so I think it's because there's no more flow and he's just comfort sucking. Basically, I just don't FEEL like there's anything flowing out at all when he's feeding after the first minute or two.
But it's such a Catch-22 situation because when I nurse him, he gets barely any milk so he's super hungry soon after. Then in order to satiate his hunger, I need to give him a good helping of formula to do so. Basically, if he's only getting breastmilk now, he'll always be going hungry!
I'm just going to try and perservere and keep on nursing him when I'm home from work. And then I'll try and pump way more often than I do now, which is once a day. Keep my fingers crossed that the supply will build up a bit again!!
Btw, do you want to join the Working Moms Group? Our first lunch meeting will be next Tuesday, August 5th at 12:30 at Dan Ryans in Pacific Place.  |