Milk Production

Drink LOTS of water. Also, drink 1 dark beer. You will be AMAZED at how much milk you will produce.
Sounds weird, but it really works.

M.

There's an herbal tea that my son's doctor had recommended to me - Mother's Milk or something like that. You can find it at health food stores. It seemed to help some. Both my children would not breast feed so I pumped for each for roughly 6 months. I've never used fenugreek or for that matter have ever heard of it. I hope I helped some.

Have you tried Brewers Yeast? You can buy the tablets at GNC. Try taking 2 of them with 8 oz of water after dinner. If you do this a few times a week it should help. If you start to get engorged, just take a few days off.

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A.,
If you do not feel like you have enough milk you need to rest, eat healthy, and drink fluids. Now is not the time to diet. I found that fluids with nutritional value like juices and milk helped me produce more milk. Go to bed earlier than normal and get more rest. Leave the dirty dishes in the sink and ask your husband to do them. Ask your husband to wash a load of clothes before he goes to bed. You will not be able to produce enough milk working full time if you do not get enough rest.

Eat a healthy well balanced diet--no empty calories. Drink lots of fluids. If you normally pump at work at 10 a.m. drink a large glass of water or juice between 9 and 9:30 a.m. Stop thinking about work while you are pumping. Take a photo of the baby and tape it to the pump. Think about your baby while you are pumping. It may sound crazy but it helped me pump more milk when I was at work.

The baby nurses more frequently when your milk supply is low. If you can do it try to pump a little more frequently at work to increase your milk supply. You may or may not be able to do that in your job.

If you get enough rest, eat healthy, and drink lots of fluids while you are away from the baby you will produce enough milk for the baby and you may not need to supplement with formula.

When I was nursing my babies I would nurse them at night and put them to bed. Then I would wait about 15 minutes to make sure the baby did not wake up and need to be nursed back to sleep. I would pump every night after the baby had nursed. It gave me extra breast milk to feed the baby.

Get one of the breast pumps that they use in the hospital. Use the kind that pumps both sides at the same time. Do not use the small ones they do not work as well and it takes too long to pump with them. We rented the one I used from La Le Che. We found the woman's name who rented them in the telephone book under La Le Che. It only took 10 minutes to pump using the double sided pump.

At work I found that if I really stayed focused on my job and did not chit chat and play that I always found time to pump every 2-3 hours. I tried to pump at the same time as the baby nursed so that I would have milk for the baby at the right times when I was home on the weekends. You will feel it in your body when you need to pump and that will remind you to pump. The women I worked with were very supportive.

I would get up and get ready early enough in the morning that I had 30-40 minutes to nurse the baby before I went to work. In the afternoon the first thing I would do when we got home was nurse the baby. I would always lay down and nurse the baby first thing in the morning and in the afternoon when we got home. It helped me to relax and rest a little at the same time.

Breast milk is filled with more nutrients than formula. As a result babies often need smaller amounts of breast milk than they do with formula. With one of my children I only pumped about 4 ounces of milk at each feeding until the baby was almost a year old. When you are nursing you can't tell how much breast milk the baby is getting. If you are comparing to bottle fed babies your milk supply may seem lower than it really is.

If the suggestions you get from the other moms do not work you may want to consult a lactation consultant at your local hospital. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has great lacatation consultants who helped me with my first child. Enjoy your little one!
S.

* Drink lots of water
* Destress when you are pumping
* Focus on your little one (try pulling out picts of your little gal and talking to the picture. You'll feel silly at first, but it really does help)

Also, there is no shame in supplementing formula for some of your feedings. I agree with the person who said it is not worth the stress. I breast feed for 13 months while working full time and it was HARD. I was the breast feeding Nazi!! Now that my son's 5, I see so many other things that were more important in shaping my child and I don't think I would have been as h*** o* myself. Would I have stopped breastfeeding? Probably not, but I would have been happier with myself and better tolerant of my own body's limitations.

Best of luck to you!!!

just to throw in my experience - i did dry up at 4 months with my first one b/c where i lived, there was no LaLecheLeague or I didn't know of anyone to ask at the time. I had a cheapo pump and my son never latched on correctly anyway (therefore my nipples were cracked and sore) - looking back, I am surprised I kept it up more than a week! But I also had a job that it was very hard for me to pump (teaching K4)at regular times.

with my second, i was a stay at home mom by then and had enough milk to feed the neighborhood! i think i was drinking more, eating better and less stressed in general while not working.

then with my third, she was 2 months early, and i had only quit nursing my son 3 months before she was born (he was only 13 months at that time, and although he only nursed at nap and bedtime, i still had LOTS of milk!!!) - i only had colostrum for a few hours after she was born, due to those circumstances. but even though she was a healthy 32-weeker, she could not suckle on her own for THREE MONTHS! i had to rent the hospital grade double pump and try to do that every 2-3 hours while chasing around a 3 yo and a 1 yo! and trying to get her to drink from a tiny bottle every few hours when she couldn't even suck! so needless to say, i was very stressed, hardly had any time to rest and eat right and drink enough. I was drying up bad! but after going thru bottles and all that entails with my oldest, i was determined to keep nursing her! plus with preemies and thru the cold months, breastmilk can be essential to their health! i tried the Fenugreek and it did nothing for me except make my pee smell funny! i had never heard of the Thistle herb, but when i told my doctor the FG didn't work, she prescribed Reglan. It is used in babies with bad reflux, so it is safe for even a newborn and boy did my milk ever come back! good grief - i had more than I could handle! she then nursed until she was 16 months old and i had to work to stop her! Then i kept getting milk out for years afterward! BTW, i was only on the Reglan for a couple of weeks, then i stopped.

and later i had a friend whose dtr had the Reglan for reflux as a baby - at age 5, the little girl was already "budding" b/c of the Reglan interfering with her hormones and causing early breast growth - this was the skinniest child i had ever seen and very strange to start looking like a pre-teen in her shirt! but they gave her something to counteract that and it went away. Reglan obviously does SOMETHING to breast development...

Best wishes with the breastfeeding - do whatever you can to keep it up if it is worth it! :)

For some reason, drinking cranberry juice helped my daughter's milk supply.

I know this a probably not what you want to hear but I just wouldn't worry yourself with this. If you are not producing enough milk try supplementing formula. I also had a full time job and nursed my daughter. It used to stress me out to no end when I wasn't producing enough milk. I wish I would have just gave it up and relaxed. I did it until she was 13 months it was about 6 months of HELL!! Looking back all the stress I was putting myself through was no good for me or my baby. She is four now and I guess what I am saying is at least you have done it for seven months. Good for you.

the dark beer thing actually works but I am guessign your employer has a zero tolerance rule. (I could use one around 2 pm around here myself.)

Hi A.. I am in the same boat as you...exactly! My little boy is 9 1/2 months. I have been having production issues for a couple of months now. I won't bore you with all of the details of what I did, as I'm sure that you've already tried it. I finally had to start adding formula to the breast milk. Even with all of the solid food he was eating, I still couldn't keep up. Sometimes I would manage to get ahead and then he would start teething and it would all go backwards. He is currently going through this and he will only take a bottle or nurse... no solids! I've almost gone through everything I managed to store in the freezer. It's so disheartening to think I may have to stop breast feeding early. So what I did(through much trial and error) is use Similac Advanced ready to use little bottles. All other formulas soured my breast milk. Believe me when I tell you that I wasted a-lot of milk with all of the best formulas. Similac was the only one that worked for me. I started by only adding 1/2 oz. for the first few days, then increased the formula by 1/2 oz. every week or so. I add the formula just before I feed him. I am now up to 2 oz. of breast milk and 2 1/1 oz. of formula. This way he doesn't have to eat just formula as it taste/smells awful! And he still gets the goodness of breast milk. I still pump 4 times a day and nurse(what seems like) the whole rest of the day. Right now he is nursing 4 times during the night... not just for comfort either. It is crazy. But I love it and am just now coming to terms with my lack of production. I don't know if this is an option for you, but I have started to drink 4 oz. of a dark beer twice a day. It seems to help with my production. I only do this when I am going to pump and add the formula that way he doesn't get any affect from the beer, and because it's only 4 oz. neither do I. It's the yeast that helps, by the way. I hope that this helps you. It really stressed me out for awhile and, of course, that made it worse. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Hi A.. I have had the same problem nursing my second daughter who is now 5 months. I am pumping a lot because of working full time and going to school and a lot of days she will drink more than I pump for that day. The two things I have tried that work are increasing my water intake (to at least 2 liters a day) and more frequent pumping. It's hard b/c my schedule doesn't always accommadate this but the La Leche League website says shorter more frequent feedings or pumping is better than longer sessions less frequently. I also pump any chance I get. For example is she goes to sleep at night at 8:30 I will pump around 10 even if I don't feel "full". Just to keep up my supply. Honestly though the water intake has made the biggest difference. I was lucky to get 2-3 ounces total each time I pumped and some times now I get 6-7 ounces. I can definitely tell a difference when I am not taking in enough. Hope this helps and good luck!
~C.

I read over the advice you have received so far and would say that I drank A LOT of water when I was nursing. I drank two large containers as I was actually nursing my child and then in between times. I pumped out the extra milk each night and froze it. I nursed for a long time (1 1/2 years) and had milk. I continued to pump after he cut himself back to only at nap time. I used it to mix in his cereal and slipped it in wherever I could. There is a tea called Mothers Milk that is suppose to help increase milk production. I think it is by Traditional Medicinals. You can get it at Kroger in the specialty isle and some health food stores might carry it. Keep at it and don't give up. IT IS SOOOO WORTH IT!

A nurse told me dark beer helps -- drink after feeding or pumping to get it out of the system before next feeding.

The other thing that helps is to add an extra pumping each day -- increased demand increases supply. What I did was put the extra pumping into baby's first cereals and other foods. I don't know what kind of pump you're using, but I had better results with the kind that pumped on both breasts at the same time.

Good luck. I know this is tough and understand that you don't want to stop early...

Try a natural health store, there are different herbal items for boosting milk production. I have also heard that one beer a day helps, something to do with the yeast in the beer. Just drink it with food and you will be okay. ( : Good luck!

Make sure you are getting adequate fluids- think 1 oz of water per 2 lb of body weight. So if you were 140 lbs you'd drink 70 oz of water a day, or over a little over a half gallon.

Also make sure you are eating enough to support lactation- I disagree with LLL on this one. Eat as if you were pregnant- low sugar, high protein and lots of healthy fats. Some foods that encourage milk production are grains like oats and millet- serve with lots of organic butter- and foods rich in A & D like liver, shrimp, bacon... Also the more high quality fats you eat, the more will come through in your milk, the same is true with transfats from hydrogenated and fried foods. So avoid vegetable oils, and try to consume extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, butter and other animal fats instead. Cold-pressed oils like flax and hemp are also good but must be kept refrigerated and used within their sell-by date. Here's another helpful link:

http://www.kellymom.com/herbal/milksupply/herbal_galactag...

You might also try visualization a few times a day. Laura Shanley, who has done a little research and writing on the subject of MALE lactation, had this experience- her husband David was able to start producing breastmilk without any herbs, drugs or nipple stimulation, just by suggesting it to himself!! So look into the power of the mind.

HTH

Hi there! I was a full time pumper for both my girls because of latch problems. For the first 2 months, I used a rented pump from a lactation consultant place, then got an Avent Isis hand pump. The Avent pump worked every bit as well as the rented commercial one! And boy, did my forearms get nice and muscly! LOL But seriously, if you can't afford to rent a "good" pump, get the Avent Isis manual. Much easier to carry to work, too! ;-) They come with these rubber inserts for the horns to try to imitate how the baby sucks, but my boobs were too big to get a good suction going, so I took them out. Worked wonderfully.

Two things I noticed that really knocked down my milk production were STRESS and lack of carbs. With my first daughter, not knowing any better, I tried going lower carb (because my mommy group on Yahoo were all talking about losing baby weight) and the milk fizzled bad. So I started munching again and there it went, movin' on up! So if you're restricting carbs, DON'T. Get the good, whole grain ones if you can. And whole fruits and vegs, with the skins.

I pumped for 10 months with the first one, then got pregnant again and the milk tapered off to nothing within a month of finding out, so I quit. I had quite a bit left in the freezer, though. I have big boobage-area, and I could go for 8 or 9 hours before pumping. My milk record for one pump was 18 oz. I don't know if this is because I have big boobs or what, but I doubt everyone can do this. Your mileage may vary, as they say.

With my second baby, I lost my milk in 5 months because of the incredible stress I was under. Long story short, too much work, not enough help or sleep, and a crappy place to live to boot. I'd used Mother's Milk Tea for both girls (that stuff works pretty well, and it tastes good too!), but that wasn't cutting it. Then I tried fenugreek, even eating the seeds after boiling them for the tea! And that didn't work. I called up my ped and begged for Reglan, but they wouldn't give it to me because of my history of depression. Apparently, it makes that worse sometimes, and they didn't trust me to know whether or not to stop taking it. sigh So the milk went poof and I got formula.

It's not so bad to go to formula. You feed as long as you can, and then supplement when you have to. No need to feel guilty about it, because you're doing the best you can, and nobody can ask for more than that! Good luck, sistah! And HUGS!!

xo,

AJ

I am currently breastfeeding my third baby. Congrats to you for sticking with it... keep it up! Why do you think your milk production is low? Breastfeeding is supply and demand. The more you do it, the more you make! Pumping is not quite as effective as the baby actually nursing, but it definitely helps! The more often you pump and nurse, the more milk you will produce. If you can, pump at least every two hours while at work. When you see your baby after work, nurse on demand. You should see your milk start to pick up. If you want to keep breastfeeding, I would not supplement formula. That will definitely help to slow down your milk production! Also see kellymom.com... great website!
C.

There are several factors here. Your baby is 7mths old, most moms tend to start some type of cereal at six mths, your baby might be starting to teeth, she gets a pacifier when you are home or at night, how often you are pumping, recent weight loss, poor diet, stress,etc.
Cut down on the amount of cereal if you feed her any, when you are home so that she is always wanting to nurse you and getting her fill from your milk not other foods or nurse her first and then give her cereal. While she's being babysat and you are at work, that is okay to give her cereal. Have the sitter, if you can, not give her any food or a bottle a couple of hours before you pick her up so she is hungry for you when you arrive andnurse her immediately. Don't let her suck on anything else except your breast when you two are together. At night, try sleeping together, especially on the weekends, skni-to-skin contact, that will increase your supply.
The other herb aside from fenugreek is Blessed Thistle(not milk thistle, though many interchange them, they are not the same).

What kind of pump do you have? It needs to be an automatic double pump that provides between 40 and 60 suction-and-release cycles per minute. If you are serious about your milk supply, I would highly suggest up grading to a better pump if you don't already have one. Make sure to pump at Least every 3 hours. Evaluate you place that you pump in. Is it too cold? Bring a sweater or blanket to put around you as you pump, if you're too cold it's hard to get a let-down. If it's too noisy or you are rushed that can effect your milk supply. Bring a photo of your baby and look at it while pumping, bring a piece of her clothing and smell it as her scent can help, or give the sitter a call right before pumping to check in on her.
Are you still taking your pre-natal vitamins? A breastfeeding woman needs to take them as long as they are nursing. Have you lost weight recently? Make sure you are getting enough to eat, a nursing mom needs an extra 500 calories a day. Get some good fat in your diet- avacados, olive oil or natural nut butters.
Try to de-stress.
Take a bath with your daughter and let her nurse in the bath with her body submerged to keep warm and you both relax.
Go to a Le Leche meeting to meet other breastfeeding moms and get support. A local company here in Brentwood, TN called Nine Months and Beyond has lactation consultants and the owner is a Le leche league leader and has breastfed all 3 of her children. www.ninemonthsandbeyond.com
Give me a call if you like too! ###-###-####
best of luck,
D.

Hey - I had mastitis and to increase milk production, they told me to take Fenugreek and Milkthistle and production was back up in no time.

Also make sure you're relaxed when you pump. if you're stressed or trying to hide or hurried for time, your body won't produce as much. and make sure you're drinking plenty of water.

Good luck!!!

I've heard that oatmeal can really help increase milk production. And it may help to keep mint and parsley out of your diet.

Hi, A.. I see some great advice here about drinking plenty of water and pumping. I just wanted you to know that in my experience, I did everything possible to keep my milk in, but it just didn't work. I drank water and more water, pumped and pumped some more, and to no avail. My milk just stopped at about 6 months, and I was so sad. My doctor said sometimes this just happens, and more often than we think or know about. So I hope that you do find something that works for you, but if you don't, remember that it's not your fault if your milk stops coming in. Good luck!!

Talk to you doctor, a friend of mine had this problem and she is now on a medicence that increases her milk supply, she says it works very well.

It is true that milk production can just halt, or in some cases never even start. Ask your doctor about Reglin. That can help increase milk production.

On the dark beer thing... Murphy's is smoother & less bitter than Guinness. Lot's of Iron in the dark beers, too!

My lactation consultant also had me taking Blessed Thistle and drinking loads of Mother's Milk tea in addition to the Fenugreek. (They can all be found at health stores.)

I took Fenugreek and Milk Thistle, but there is also a prescription drug (I can't remember the name of it) that increases milk production. Call your OB or pediatrician and see if you can get a prescription to try that. Good luck!

And incidentally, I pumped for 11 months. You go girl!

I agree with Susan, but I also understand where you are coming from. This is a recipe that worked for me. It is an all-natural milk shake. I thought it was the stupidest thing and so unlikely to work, but I did it anyway just to say that I tried it and it did not work.

1/4 fresh papaya
1/3 cup carnation milk
Sugar to desired taste
Ice to desired shake consistency
Place all your ingredients in a blender and shake away.

It tastes good, but have a bit of an after taste that does not last. Some people don't even taste the after taste. I have a sensitive palate. Drink it before pumping, wait until you fill up and pump it out. The milk might be too much to have the shake before feeding.

Let me know how it works out for you.

Good luck and God Bless,

I went to see a lactation consultant because I was producing enough milk to feed three kids. She told me very specifically to avoid any grains (like cereal, oatmeal, whole wheat bread, barley) etc. because it would increase my milk supply even further. She also told me to avoid caffeine for the same reason.

These are the things you should avoid, they decrease milk supply...anything peppermint and the spice sage.

I would highly recommend the Nursing Station in Louisville off of Dutchman's Lane. They have had geat successes with getting women where they need to be with nursing. I had a friend who adopted a baby that she wanted to be able to nurse and somehow they got her going...

Anyway, good luck!

Hi A.,

I refer all moms to Kelly Mom. The website is an amazing source for any and all breast feeding related questions.

http://www.kellymom.com/

Warmly,
D.

Something similar happened to me - my milk production started to decrease after my daughter turned six months old. I think it may be related to the fact that, around that age, they are eating more baby foods and possibly drinking things like water and juice and, basically, not needing as much breastmilk any more as they used to when they were infants. So maybe you don't really need to try to increase your milk supply. I stopped pumping at work when my daughter was around nine months old because I was no longer able to get enough milk for it to be worth the effort. However I continued to nurse my daughter whenever I was home - morning, when I got home, before bed, once at night - basically four times a day. I felt it was adequate to provide that emotional bond and extra immunity that is so great about nursing. I continued to nurse until she was 16 months old and I decided to wean. So try to relax, let your milk supply decrease a little as your daughter eats more table foods, and as long as she still nurses a few times a day, I think you will be ok.

i would think maybe if you pumped more often your milk production would go up but i really dont know as i was a bottle only mom

Hi A.
Congrats on BF your daughter thus far! I nursed my son until 1 year. I had to pump as well. My milk production started decreasing around 8-9 months. I started using fenugreek and I also did the mother's milk tea. I drank 1-2 cups daily. Other natural things you can do is drink lots of water and eat steel cut oatmeal. The website la leche league.org is also a great resource. Make sure when you pump that you are nice and relaxed and have adequate time for pumping. I found that when I pumped at work (M-F) my production seemed to lessen as the week went on. So those days I lengthened my pumping sessions.
Good luck! P.

I had the same issue, my Dr. put me on Reglan (It's actually a Gastro-intestinal prescription, but given directly to babies as young a preemies in the hospital, so it's safe for little ones if it goes through your breast milk) and it REALLY increased my milk production. i only had to take it for about a week to see a big difference. I don't think you've stopped "just because", so to speak, maybe you're just under more stress than usual, or dehydrated... even if you get NOTHING, I would suggest pumping for about 5 extra minutes on each side each time you pump, it will help stimulate and produce more milk.
My OB (God BLESS her, she always has a perfect/simple solution) told me, "studies show women are much more likely to drink if they have a STRAW in the water bottle;" it's easier to bring to your mouth and get a drink than to tilt your head back (we didn't have one straw in the house at the time) so I went out, got a water bottle with a straw and have been hydrated ever since. so stupid, it worked. guzzle the water and pump pump pump :) good luck!!

I had an issue with this, too, and basically, I started pumping like every 2 hours for about a week. I would not get much at first, but eventually, I did. THen I was able to space it out again to 3 hours and produce more milk in that time than before. I hear that frequent stimulation, either by pumping or baby will increase production better than anything. also, just be sure you are drinking plenty of water. good luck.

A few ideas I know of include pumping for an extra two minutes beyond your last let-down and rotating between using other supplements like alfalfa. Fenugreek is only helpful for around a month, and then you need to switch to something new to keep the effect up. When you have used the other supplement for a few weeks, you can switch back to fenugreek. Oatmeal also helps with production levels.
I know that if you contact La Leche League, they will have numerous helpful suggestions for increasing supply.

How much Fenugreek are you taking? You should be taking 3 or 4 capsules, 3 or 4 times per day. Hormonal birth control pills can also effect your supply(yes, even the progesterone only ones) If the shields on your pump are too small your supply will go down over time as well. Check out the Medela site for help with this one. Contact your local LLL Leader they will be able to help you look at all the different things. BTW Reglan does help milk supply but has the side effect of depression for some women.

I also had problems with milk production after about 7 months. I was allergic to the fenugreek so my doctor gave me a prescription I can not recall the name, but your Doctor should know. I called the breastfeeding hotline at the hospital and they told me about it. I hope this helps. Good luck. M.

You may have more success with a different (better) breast-pump. I pumped for a friend's adopted baby when my baby was a few weeks old, and I got a lot more using her double-pump machine (borrowed from a breastfeeding consultant friend of hers) than I did with the cheap single-pump machine I got from Walmart. And it was much more comfortable, too.

But good going on being so committed to breastfeeding your baby! That's awesome!

She is getting older, so she may not need as much milk during the day, and can get nutrition from other food. I began transitioning my kids to eating (as opposed to nursing) when they were six months old, so she may not be needing as much, too.

I noticed, when I was nursing, that when I pumped, my milk was very noticably LESS. I think it has to do with the pumping. If it was a real true suction by the baby I don't think that you would have a problem. I am not sure there is a cure. Maybe on the weekends you can try to feed her more than the normal... just constant if you could. Maybe at night you can nurse her more than the normal.
Good luck I hope that you are able to to nurse her as long as you want.

Don't stress yet...this is common, for women's milk supply to dry up or to slow up in the amount of milk you use to be producing. Your little girl has probably started solids recently, correct? She probably has also spaced out her feedings and doesn't need as much milk from you as she use to. All perfectly normal. This happened to me, however in my situation I didn't pump daily, so when I did start to pump b/c I wanted to leaver my little at home to go get a haircut and spend a few hours shopping with a friend is when I noticed that my supply had decreased. Granted, your little one is WAY better than any pump will ever be, but you have to work and she's not there to do her thing. Fenugreek is good to use and continue to do so. Call your La Leche League and see if there is someone who can help you, or call a lactation center and see what they suggest. You can and should still keep pumping, just increase the amount of pumping times a day. Pump right after she is done nursing (you'll probably need some help here!) after she has started things and the milk is still there your machine can help pull more out. Nurse her at anytime you can, basic law of supply and demand is in effect here. Talk to your pediatrician and see what they suggest to. Ås long as she is not getting frustrated at the breast and is content through out the day without getting hungry more than usual, she's probably fine. As moms we worry there not getting enough, but they'll let you know. If she is getting mad at the breast or eats then wants to eat again, then maybe there is a supply problem. Keep nursing her, go for the year, it was hard for me too. I had the same situation affect me, but I never pumped, but when I needed to for certain situations, I made sure I started pumping early in the week and kept pumping at all times during the day. Even if you have to set your alarm to go off at some wee hour in the morning so you can pump and trick your body into thinking you need more milk. I hope that helps. Good luck! Any questions: ____@____.com Take care!!

DON'T GIVE UP!! You can make it to a year!!!!
A. B

Hi A.
Galactagogues like fenugreek work best when you increase the amount of times you emptying your breasts and completely emptying your breasts. If you have a time such as in the morning after your daughter nurses, that your breasts do not feel empty, pump the remaining milk out (maybe 7-10 min of pumping). Start with doing this anytime you feel she has not completely emptied your breasts. If you do not notice an increase in your milk supply by the end of the week by doing this, then continue doing it and add an extra pumping in during the day when you are away from her. It is very effective if you are using a double electric pump at work.
A little about me: I have a seven year old son and I am a Lactation Counselor and have been working with mothers for the past 6 1/2 years.

Breastfed 2 kids and Organic tea called Healthy nursing tea worked magnificently with me;) with no caffeine and sugar and any preservatives.....naturally sweet I LOVE it;))))