Went from great colostrum production and milk coming up to barely anything
So I am three weeks postpartum I was induced and my baby was in the Nicu so she didn’t get immediate skin to skin. I’m a first time mom and I did not truly understand the benefits of getting my baby to latch and pumping immediately at the hospital or skin to skin. I was on so many medication’s. I was in and out of sleep and so stressed I barely was pumping, but when I did, I was getting so much colostrum. I was able to bring home some colostrum and then my milk started coming in about five days postpartum the first night I got 1 ounce and I was leaking through throughout the night. This is the point I regret the most because I did not understand that milk works on supply demand and also wasn’t latching my Baby much because since she was in the Nicu she was receiving Similac. Fast forward to today I’ve learned about power pumping and I’ve been pumping about 5 to 7 times a day and maybe every other session I’ll get one ML of milk literally filling a syringe. I just want to provide my Baby with what she needs. I know my body can do it it just severely severely decrease. I feel defeated as a mom I did meet virtually with two lactation consultants who the last one told me if she were me she would stop and that hurt me so bad I don’t want to give up. I want to know if anyone went through this and was able to come up on top and produce milk. I did have a breast reduction because I had severely large breast and even now after the surgery, I can fill a C-D cup, my nipples remain intact, but in the left breast I did lose some sensation, but I feel my body has the capability to produce milk as it was building up before. Just looking for some advice or anyone out there who had a similar issue please help.
And overall about me, I am a 26 year-old female. This is my first child. I tried to do skin to skin, but I have been going through postpartum anxiety and depression slightly and I haven’t been sleeping much. I’m sleep deprived. I have not been eating much I do have an amazing boyfriend who helps me, but again the anxiety and depression is causing a major struggle.
The first picture is literally how much I’ll get now after one session from one breast and the second picture is how much I got originally postpartum discharge around 5 days