Milk have yet to increase even wen frequent latching

Realise my breast milk drop wen pumping. Right sight can go as low as 5-10ml for evry 30min pump. I think it started wen my 6weeks lo had a long stretch of night mal (3-4h) and i sas also asleep and woke up after 3h and dreamfeed her. Ive been latchimg on demand but has mot seen any increment. Powerpump sometimes nothing cameout on the 2nd or 3rd sesh. My left also not very much. Any advice? Im on oat biscuit for snacks and mama’s choice milk booster. How long will i see an increment? Its hard to pump on day time cuz LO takes shortnap then disrupt my pumping session #pleasehelp #advicepls

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Try squeezing every ounce of milk out of your breast. Sometimes you actually have milk, but the pump can't get it out. Maybe when u pump, try squeezing all angles of your breast, like push up the bottom of your breast, squeeze your breast from the sides etc see if anything comes out. the first time maybe quite painful, but it helps declot your duct. Sometimes gravity pulls your milk to the bottom of your breast and your pump can't get it out so you need to push it. Also sometimes you actually got milk but the duct is very small so the stream is very thin and you cant see it, and takes forever to pump because it is just too thin (and slow) - squeezing can help project the thin stream so you can see it if u use a torch or something. This is v time consuming and tiring but it ensures you empty your breasts all the time. Also pumping every 2 hours (e.g 1pm, 3pm, 5pm) for a few days even if nothing comes out (try as long as possible tho), and also power pumping once a day. I had no milk for the first few days, got to 2-3ml in the 2nd week and now sometimes more than 50ml per side doing this for 4 weeks. You can try see if it works for you?

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2y ago

Thank you for the detailed response. I will give it a try. Because i keep latching LO as i hardly have time to pump since im taking care of her alone while hubby is working. Or sometimes she just wants to cling to me. And its hard to find time to pump as she naps very short in the day. And i only have night time to pump or a period where she manage to stretch her sleep time. She just turn 2 months and i hope i can get more time to pump now. And i hope she has been consuming enough milk because sometime she seem to be agitated while brrastfeeding, making me think theres no more milk for her to suck.