i had gotten M back on the breast for a few days and it seemed to be going very well! i wasnt feeling full so i knew she was getting enough.
Husband and i decided to take a family trip to a cabin in the mountains!
i brought my pump just in case, but no expressed frozen milk. why would i need it? i was feeding at the breast! we were an hour from home, with no cell signal. that whole day i was feeling very tender at the nips, and i had some scabbing on the left side due to friction so i decided to pump the left and nurse on the right in block nursing fashion.
first pumping on the left i got 4 ounces easily. 2 hours later i nursed on the right, she fell asleep but i thought she had gotten enough. another 2 ish hours later i began to pump on the left. i got 1 oz. i decided to pump the right side at the next feeding to see how much i was getting. i pumped 2 oz. 3 oz in 4 hours? HOW?! i had JUST gotten through a massive oversupply! i didnt skimp, or diet, or go beyond the 2-3 hour block nursing recommendation. and we were back on the breast!
my breasts were very empty feeling, and even my husband mentioned they looked like they did before i was pregnant.
this continued throughout the night.
this was Friday night.
Saturday i drove into town to get M some milk from our freezer and called an LC working at the hospital. (when im an LC i think i may have weekend hours. it took forever to get ahold of an LC on weekend!)
i made an appt for Monday (today) and the LC thought maybe the nip pain was thrush or something like that. ill get that checked. as for the supply. she isnt sure WHY my supply dropped. there wasnt any stress or anything. I mean after all we were relaxing in a cabin in the woods away from everything and everyone :)
she "prescribed" lots of skin to skin time (difficult with sore breasts!)
its now monday, and i still am not getting more trhan 1 oz in the left and 1.5-2 on the right in a 2 hour period. i started fenugreek today, 3capsules 3x a day and ill keep that up for about 10 days to start i think. M is drinking about 3-4 oz a feeding now so i just need to get back there and ill be fine!
who knows, at the rate my breasts are going, ill be oversupply again in a split second. sigh.
i wish truly that i could have my baby, painfree at the fully efficient breast.
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