Breastmilk supply tanking. Baby 4 months. Help!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me. Nothing helped and I had to start supplementing. If you think your baby isn't getting enough don't be afraid to offer some formula. I was very anti formula and because of that my baby was hungry for about 3 weeks. FTM mistake.

I didnt know it at the time but if you search the archives you'll see that this is a very common time period for supply to drop.

+1 to all of this. Got my period at 2 months, then by 4 months my supply abruptly plummeted and had almost nothing left. I then switched to formula after Reglan and fenugreek, etc. failed. My child did great once I switched, though -- formula is fine, people! I'm nursing my 5-w.o. DC2 now and wondering if the same thing will happen again. He's a hungrier, stronger nurser than DC1 was but I'm not sure if that will make a difference.