Almost all mums can produce enough milk to exclusively breastfeed their baby, but your milk supply can be impacted by many factors.
What can impact on your milk supply?
The most common cause for insufficient milk supply, particularly in the early days, is your baby not latching and feeding effectively.
Your milk supply can also be impacted by:
- spacing or scheduling feeds
- introducing bottles/formula and not expressing to compensate
- returning to work or being separated from baby and not expressing to compensatecertain medications/herbs (like peppermint) /supplements
- illness or dehydration
- stress
- baby not latching and feeding well
- undiagnosed tongue ties
- conditions such as hypoplasia/Insufficient Glandular Tissue (IGT)
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