Supply question

Maizey06

I got the stomach flu on Thursday. Luckily it was a very mild case but I have been not eating very much and yesterday I had an incredibly low supply. During the flu I tried some of suggestions Bumpies provided. At DD's last feeding yesterday I had to give her a bottle because I had nothing. Do I need to now take extra steps to increase my supply or will ut happen naturally once I start eating more?

rp-chicago-mom

My understanding is you can bring your supply back with things like fenugreek, guiness, etc if you had a good supply to begin with. I might try some of that to be safe.

Make sure you're getting enough iron and protein when you do eat. Drink your water. The best thing you can do is lots of skin to skin with her and power pump.

That more milk plus is expensive but I think it helps too. You can get it in pill form so you don't have to drink it.

kokokat

I started more milk plus yesterday because daycare is always telling me that DS icould use larger and larger bottles.  I was just barely keeping up with his needs for DC, and then didn't have much to put in a bottle for DH to feed him during the night several days a week.  I think I paid $23 for 60 pills.  I don't mind if it works, and it seems to be.   I fed DS at 8 am this morning, he ate well, and then I pumped out 5.5 ounces immediately afterwards.  So yeah, appears to be working!