Many women believe their milk supply is modest when in reality it is not.  Believing this may occur if you lose the feeling of fullness in your breasts or if the milk ceases leaking from your nipples.  Infants that experience growth spurts may desire more milk than customary and these additional feedings could leave your breasts less than full.

Causes of it
A mother’s milk supply may decrease for an abbreviated time period if she isn’t nursing frequently enough because of nipple pain, or a inferior latch on technique.  Sicknesses or birth control pins containing estrogen could also lessen the production of milk.

What you should do
The optimal method of addressing a depleted supply of breast milk is with a doctor’s care.  You ought to be sure that your infant nurses frequently and that nothing is haywire with your nipples or your milk ducts.  It is best to ask your doctor because she can run tests making sure there is nothing wrong with your body.

A depleted supply of breast milk could affect your infant, though it’s more of a mental circumstance than anything else.  If your infant isn’t gaining weight or if she is losing weight, you ought to call up a doctor right away.  Better techniques for breast feeding will commonly help with the problem, but in a few cases weight gain or weight loss will be cause for serious concern.

In most cases, you will be able to continue nursing with a short-lived reduction in milk supply, frequent breastfeeding is the key to increasing your supply of milk.

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