I recently lost my milk supply and it has been a very difficult challenge for our family. My 5 month old still refuses to take formula {I think I’ve tried 5 or so different kinds}, yet we’ve been struggling for about 2 weeks now to bring back my milk.
I’ve done all of the herbal stuff {like Mother’s Milk Tea
Well along with all of this stuff, I’ve researched out tons of great articles that talk about how to increase your milk supply that I want to share with you!
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Ultimate List of Articles on How to Increase Your Milk Supply
- Baby Center – they are the absolute best! I come to them for most of my “baby” or post-baby questions.
- I took this Breastfeeding Problem Solver Quiz to help me get an idea of what might be wrong
- Some of the things that came up were Low Milk Supply
- Poor Latch
- It also said I might be sick and how that affects nursing
- This is a good one for telling if your baby got enough milk
- Ask Dr Sears – He has a very extensive list on How to increase milk. I never thought about “double-feeding” or undressing the baby for skin-to-skin contact. I do laugh at the “get household help” haha if only that were reality 😉 {besides you hubby, you help out a ton when you are home!}
- Kelly Mom – she is a great resource for nursing questions
- Increasing Low Milk Supply
- This is a good one when you think you might be low on milk but aren’t sure because you “feel empty”
- I really enjoyed reading this one because it talked about what is a normal amount for pumping!
- This is a good one from Moms Make Milk about what you can actually do/eat to increase your milk supply. I didn’t know about the coconut water
- Breastfeeding Problems – Low Milk Supply. I really enjoyed this one; not only has she suffered from low milk {for 6 months!} she has some really great tips about what you can do {more than just eat well}!
- Mum’s Make Lists: good resource for nursing moms. These are simple ways to increase milk supply, but put all 20 of these tips together and you’ll see a difference!
- For those mom’s who are exclusively breastfeeding by pumping not nursing this is a great site! I’ve done all of those 5 tips except the drink beer part! Eating oatmeal helps for sure though.
- Just Mommies has a good list of foods that you can focus on to help increase milk supply
- Mom Junction also has a list of 25 foods to increase milk supply. I didn’t know about asparagus or brown rice!
- Here is a video from Mama Natural that talks about how to increase milk supply
- La Leche League is seen to be one of the leading companies of well… Leche {milk 🙂 }
- What to Expect this is a direct link to the article of tips to increase low milk supply
- WebMD sometimes I feel comforted going here {not sure why} maybe because it says “MD” haha
- Work and Pump this article is about increasing milk supply specifically if you are a working mom
- Mom365 she has a great list of tips about well.. you guessed it… increasing your milk supply
- BellyBaby this one is a great article for low milk
- Breastfeeding Basics I like this one too
If you’ve gone through these a lot of them say similar things. Each one has something unique to offer, so I did read through all of them.
Is there anything on this list that you’ve done that you have found to be successful in increasing milk supply? Or, do you have an awesome article that you would like included in this list? Comment below!
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