| My wife is also finding her breast milk supply diminishing. Baby Jeffrey is now nearly 6 months old.
One of the problems may be that my wife works full time and also works shifts: - morning shift (7am to 3pm), afternoon shift (3pm to 11pm) & night shift (11pm to 7am). She works 4 days on each shift, followed by 1 day off (2 days off after night shift).
With her schedule the most she can express is 5 times a day when she's working, so the advice of 'just express more' can't really be followed.
She also can't breastfeed more. Actually, we had to completely stop breast feeding a few months ago as my wife's shift work hours were confusing the baby too much and he wasn't drinking from the bottle much when my wife was at work. Once we cut out the breast feeding, and switched to 100% bottle feeding he started drinking much better and now drinks between 7-8oz of expressed milk per feed. My wife hand-expresses rather than using a pump.
Anyway, any suggestions on how my wife can increase her supply? At the moment, shes' only managing to express enough each day for 4 feeds and even that's getting difficult. For night time feeds we give the baby formula.
My wife has also noticed that her breast milk texture & color has changed to become more thin and white, whereas before it was thicker and more yellow. So she's wondering if this will effect the babies nutrition?
Graham  |