Re: Help! I would like to increase my milk supply but is it too late?

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At Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Daphne wrote: >
>Hello,
>I know that if you decrease the number of times you breastfeed your milk
>supply will decrease, but if you increase them again, will the milk
>supply re-adjust to meet the increased demand or is it a
>"use-or-permanently lose" situation? Here's my story: my baby is 11
>weeks old and since she was born we have had to supplement her with
>formula after each breast-feeding because she wasn't gaining weight.
>Apparently I had an inadequate milk supply, but it may not have been
>given a chance: they told me to start supplementing when she was only a
>week old. I suspect that with the supplementation, my milk supply never
>got a fair chance to increase because the formula filled her up so much
>that she didn't need to feed as often. Now she seems to be gaining very
>nicely and is even a little chubby so I would like to try to exclusively
>breastfeed her again, but I wonder, after all this time, if I start
>feeding her more often will my milk supply just increase to meet the
>demand or is it too late? I'm 39 and this is my first child.
>Daphne

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Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.
Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital Fernández
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Barcelo University
Vicepresident of Argentine Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy
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