Breastfeeding Low Milk Supply - Fact or Myth?

While it's true I am a man and as such I don't have first hand experience of breastfeeding.  However my wife successfully breastfeed our first child for 9 months and is currently breastfeeding our second, who is now just over a month old.

Our first child wanted to feed all the time anything between 30 minutes, at worst, to 3 hours at best.  This continued to for the first 8 weeks or so and was hard for my wife.  After those first few weeks it became a fair bit easier as he would feed more regularly around every 2 hours.

What made it difficult was the cluster feeding and using the breastfeeding to settle when nothing else would work.  I don't think we ever thought there wasn't enough milk just that it was hard going.  For this I am very proud of my wife.  It seems that women get to this stage and feel like they don't have enough milk and go on to the bottle, were in fact it's pretty normal if a hard work.  But, for us, after those first few weeks it got much easier.

I saw this article which prompted my to write this blog today.  I basically says that women do have enough milk, or rather have the capacity of producing enough milk.  The cluster feeding is the babies way of getting the milk supply of the mother to what it requires.  So you could say there isn't enough milk but the baby is telling the mum it wants more and she then produces more.

Good luck with the breastfeeding, remember you can do it!