Issues - I have no breast milk!

It's the 2nd week already.

Most people have their breast flowing with milk like a factory and you have only 30ml in total from the pumps.

You feel like a loser. You are not doing enough for your baby. You are a lousy Mother!

- You are doing it wrongly and every women have breast milk -

I'm not talking about the "colostroum" <- i don't know how to spell.
I'm taking about MILK!

Here are some common problems faced by Mummy is you have no breast milk or very little breast milk.

Breast milk is a mental stimulation process of supply and demand.
If you keep supplementing with formula, your breast milk's quantity remains low.

- Ask yourself. Why are you supplementing with formula? -

If the answer is - because i tried and tried but the baby is hungry and crying.
Then go ahead, throw in 30ml of formula (In the senario of first - second week after birth)

If the answer is - i'm tired from waking up at night every 45mins - 1hour.
Then go ahead, throw your breast pump away. You will never have breast milk.
Like mention, supply and demand. Your brain will stop producing milk at night, cause there is no suckleling.

How do i know? Well, that's what happen to my wife. We wanted the baby to sleep well at night so we gave 100% formula during the night. So her breast milk quantity remains at 60 - 90ml.
Impossible to feed 2 babies.

Also, this is confirmed by the lactationist <- don't know how to spell also.

More then just simple commitment to allow the baby to suckle as and when he/she wants, there is also a problem of stress.

Is someone in your family saying "Give them some formula la, you don't have milk, they are hungry."

If there is, you will get stress and stress does not help in generating milk.

This is where the husband come in.
Encourage your wife. Do whatever to make her believe she is doing well.

For myself. I do the stupid "snap my fingers" and as though magic, i "hypnotise" my wife and tell her that she have a lot of milk, she is a milk factory.

Stupid? Yes. Effective? Very.
She is now more positive and tries very hard to feed throughout the day.
Everyone's happy.

Also, try to give her proof that she is doing well.
Take a record of feeding time of formula milk. If the baby feeds on breast milk for 6hours, show it to her. Tell her she's done a great job and the baby sleeps an hour or so after feeding and have not had any formula for the last 6hours!

Be hyper! Be excited. Be more excited then her.
Bring the baby to her when the baby cries, pour her a cup of warm water after she's done.
Tell her the baby loves her for giving him/her milk.

It's all in the mind.
It's a bonding process not only for Mummy and Baby, but for Daddy too.

Com'on Dad! Do your part!
You can save tons of money for not buying milk powder too you know!
Do it!