mine felt empty when dd was about that age too, but they werent, they just didnt feel full anymore.
i found milo made them 'feel' full again (whether it actually boosted i dont know, but the full feeling was there the day after i drank it) i also took 3 fenugreek tablets a day and drank heaps of water.
can you pump before you go to bed (i read somewhere a while ago your dd is sleeping through?) i used to pump before i went to bed once dd was sleeping through and if she needed a top up in the day, or if i had to leave her for whatever reason she would have it, or i would just freeze it.
i hope you can get through this, and i hope its just something else. goodluck
i agree with the possibility of teething causing it too
With your first baby, when your boobs lose that full feeling it's understandable to freak out and assume you've got a problem. You get to a point in the early months where the milk production plateaus and goes "Ohhhhhhh! You mean, I can back off now, instead of leaking and filling up?". Have you heard a squillion women say that they only got to breastfeed for 3/4/5 months because they lost their supply? It's when their boobs no longer felt full or hard and they couldn't express as much, if anything. Expressing is soooooooo different from what your baby can get out!
There are so many things at play at this stage that you've got to just keep going.
Here's what I can think of immediately:
- boobs evening out to what they realise Isla needs
- developmental stage in Isla that means she's just a bit more needy right now
- teeth moving up
- you freaking out about your supply and instead of gazing lovingly in her eyes and soaking her up while you hold her in a breastfeed she sees a furrowed brow and you looking at your boobs and feeling them and mama generally looking upset...so she feels upset, too
- perhaps something else she is coming down with that hasn't made itself known yet.
It could be some, one or all of these things. Being that you don't know for sure, just keep feeding and eliminate what you can from that list
Milk production catch up takes more than 24 hours if her pattern of intake is changing dramatically - this happens to us when there's a sickness that becomes apparent about 2 or 3 days after the Velcro Baby syndrome has started. Then, inevitably, she'll get better, not need as much and I get that familiar 'full' feeling all over again...with a girl who doesn't want it from me anymore
Ya know how we say and you found out that 'it just clicks'...trust us on this one, too, babe
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