home remedy or natural way to increase breast milk

I delivered a baby girl last week, but am unable to produce enough milk, but I don't want to give her formula just yet? Is there any home remedy or natural way to increase breast milk?

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What makes you think you're not producing enough milk? If it's because baby is crying and keep wanting to latch, that's a good thing coz that's the way your supply will increase. Just keep latching. It'll be tiring at first but once the supply increases because of all that latching, you'll have a much easier time. If you're judging your supply based on how much you're pumping out, please don't. What a pump can extract and what a baby can suck out is very different. Babies are much more efficient. Pumping quantity is not a good gauge of actual amount being produced. Whatever you do, don't give formula if your baby is already producing the required number of wet diapers. Baby will be full of fm and will want to latch less which then causes your supply to drop. You'll fall into the formula milk trap which is a vicious cycle.

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