3chords
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Welcome Mrs W! Always good to have new blood around here. And some of us will be doing new cycles, etc at some point too.
Star, I'm not really sure how to up supply as I have the opposite problem, namely I have an oversupply. I was pumping like 2 litres, like 70 oz a day at some point. Even now I only pump 5x per day and I'm still getting about 35-40 oz which is insane. Which pump do you have? The one thing I was told early on and I did do (which I now wish I hadn't b/c my oversupply has caused issues) is that if you have a two-phase pump, like a Medela, so a pump that goes on for 2 mins in the suckling phase and then goes to the letdown phase, after you're done pumping and no more milk comes out, go back to the suckling phase for another 2-3 minutes. You may not get any milk coming out but it will increase the supply as it will signal to your body that your baby is trying to get more milk out but not succeeding as no letdown.
I was also told the same thing about 2 cycles before IVF. We have to do another fresh cycle and I also don't want my babies so close together so we will likely do a freeze all sometime this summer and then if we can get some PGS normal embryos do a transfer towards the end of the year.
Star, I'm not really sure how to up supply as I have the opposite problem, namely I have an oversupply. I was pumping like 2 litres, like 70 oz a day at some point. Even now I only pump 5x per day and I'm still getting about 35-40 oz which is insane. Which pump do you have? The one thing I was told early on and I did do (which I now wish I hadn't b/c my oversupply has caused issues) is that if you have a two-phase pump, like a Medela, so a pump that goes on for 2 mins in the suckling phase and then goes to the letdown phase, after you're done pumping and no more milk comes out, go back to the suckling phase for another 2-3 minutes. You may not get any milk coming out but it will increase the supply as it will signal to your body that your baby is trying to get more milk out but not succeeding as no letdown.
I was also told the same thing about 2 cycles before IVF. We have to do another fresh cycle and I also don't want my babies so close together so we will likely do a freeze all sometime this summer and then if we can get some PGS normal embryos do a transfer towards the end of the year.