Re: Re-establishing breastfeeding
Hiya, When my baby was a few weeks old we had a BFing problem and i was told to build my supply by letting him have a feed from each side then after he had finished to pump what i could. I didn't get much out but it did build up with regular expressing. So that works, i've found lately Kaelan has been feeding more at night and after a few days of this i'm nearly drowning him now!! You could also save and give any expressed milk to your baby in a bottle.
He is probably 'wriggling' on the boob because it's a different sucking action to a bottle and if he is use to bottle he may find the breast a bit slow until let down kicks in. Really, if you don't use it you lose it! So anything regular, feeding or expressing will build it up.
Looked up some herbs for you: Goats Rue, fennel,dill, fenugreek and milk thistle are all for building up milk supply. Parsley leaf tea is another one for encouraging milk flow!
Good luck and don't stress!! Julie
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