Hi,
After a rough start to BF with DD, I had an easy time for the 19 months I BF her. With DS it has been smooth sailing from the start - apart from slight oversupply and fast letdown issues initially.
I have always had a good supply, so when I heard of a local woman who was looking for breast milk donations, I was all too happy to help out. I still had some frozen milk as I sometimes have to pump for comfort, but never end up giving it to DS. I also want to provide her with continued, regular donations (she's unable to make enough due to a breast reduction surgery she had as a teenager).
I started pumping yesterday (have a tommee tippe manual pump) and was shocked how little milk I got. I used to be able to fill a 250ml bottle relatively quickly. But that was when I felt very full. I had no idea how much my supply had settled.
I found it took forever to trigger a letdown.
I expressed twice today and only got 60ml all up.

I am now a little worried that I might have been in the process of losing my milk. DS has taken to solids so well, that maybe I was overfeeding him with solids and he was not getting enough milk anymore???
That really scares me, as I want to feed DS for some time yet. So maybe it was a good thing that I started pumping again as i caught it before it was too late.

Or maybe I'm just completely overreacting. Which is probablly the case. It's just that I never had to worry about not having enough, so this really caught me off guard.

So, i guess this is what I'm gonna do to increase supply:
Feed often
Express a few times a day
Drink plenty of water
I don't really want to take any supplements unless it is really necessary to sustain my own child.

Any other ideas?