sage has taken to chomping on her fist CONSTANTLY!!! she's always screaming for food!!! i'm breastfeeding but working, so she takes expressed bottles while i'm at work and for the past 5-6 days i have fed her twice before i go to work, and she takes 3 4 oz. bottles while im at work (which is only 6 hours...) is this normal???? does my milk suck or something???

what the heck is going on!!??

Growth spurt maybe? Tyler does this every now and then and then it settles again don't worry that its your milk its not.

im just worried that maybe my milk is going away since i have been pumping or something.

if your substituting feeds with pumping it should make no difference to your supply.

oh thats good to know i was getting worried b/c i am getting less when i pump lately.... maybe she is eating more so i get less when i pump? but then what shall i feed her when im away? lol.

you could always try pumping more often in between her actual feeds to increase your supply if your really concerned but i'm sure she'll sort herself out.

i hope so! i really dont want to go to formula. but if i run out of expressed milk, i dont know what im gonna do when i go to work.... i will try to get my boss to let me pump twice instead of once a day...

well have just found out that my milk supply is almost gone... i had a mirena placed last week and it has affected my supply A LOT. i have been feeding her as much as i can, but i dont have enough to satisfy her.

has anyone ever successfully breastfed what they had and supplemented the rest???

oh no sorry to hear that i hope you can work something out that keeps her satisfied without having to give up all together xx.