I’m 10 weeks pp and I know in 2 weeks my supply is pretty much regulated, here recently over the past week week and half my supply went from around 55oz to around 45 oz my son currently eats around 30 oz give or take, but this is around the same time I started losing my supply with my 4 year old and eventually leading me to dry up around 4 months pp.

I find it very difficult to add extra pumps in and or a power pump in the morning or at night because my baby has like this super skill when it comes to needing me the exact moment I attach my pumps on, or my 4 year old is needing this and that or another. I can get around 4-5 pumps in 5 days a week when my fiance is at work on days he’s home I can absolutely get 6-7 pumps in but I know two days a week isn’t gonna increase my supply back to what it was.

I know it seems ridiculous that I’m distraught about this considering I’m still producing more than I need to, but it feels foreboding and very similar to how things looked previously. I worked so freaking hard when my baby was in the NICU to get my supply as high as it was, and I was so proud of myself, I was absolutely dedicated to getting all my pumps in at the exact time I needed to doing cluster pumps and power pumps hand expressing afterwards anything I could reasonably do to continue to increase my supply until I was happy with it. I now feel like I’m failing myself, like all my hard work and dedication has just been thrown in the trash then taken to a landfill to be buried.

I don’t know what I can do at this point to get back to where I was. I try to pump whenever I can sometimes I’ll only go two hours sometimes I’ll go 5-6 hours, but regardless of me pumping when I can I just can’t get more than 5 pumps in.

I know people recommend pumping when baby is content in a bouncer or feed them and pump at the same time while in the bouncer but he needs to eat in the incline side lying position to help him not choke on his food and burping him with the pumps on is incredibly awkward I don’t feel like I have the full motion of my arms because my pumps get in the way. I got wearable pumps to help be able to do stuff like this but I ended up feeling awkward and clumsy when it comes to baby and pumping.

I just don’t know what to do to help feel better about all this and it makes me just want to quit all together but my fiance throws in the agreement we can’t afford formula and I’ve saved us over 3k in formula already.