I was having colic for past few days! Luckily not my baby though, the feeling is really no good, sudden pain on tummy, come and go, on different location everytime.
mihoger:
Hmm... you sounded more "milk cow" then I! I didn't pump in first month, do exclusive latching, so less things to worry about. And it established my supply. Then come second started to pump a bit, and yeah, I kinda "starve" her abit to start storing the first bottle of EBM. Then things get better.
right now I'm pumping extra 1 glass bottle of BM per day, usually just right after (or before) baby wakes in the morning. Which can be 5am or 7am. I find it good timing cos my breasts are full, and if baby have not latch yet, I'll pump only 6 min, so that still got enough for her when she wakes. Otherwise, feed her first, then pump for 15 min, usually still got 100ml left. But the rest of the day is just catching up whatever she's drank.
maybe you can try getting a electric pump? When my breast are full, it can take as little as 6 min to pump, ended up I spent more time preparing and washing up. And it take a total 1 hour, I can imagine you will have to spent like 2 hour to prepare, pump and wash up. Then it's almost time to pump again!
I was having problem getting my gal to drink from bottle, she will cry and cry and even if she can finish (90ml in 2 hours?) she will still wanna latch on.
Bearycue: I hv big nipple too, thanks to my #1 who changed the shape. My nipple is as big as her mouth, so got to stuff it inside at first, now my baby is 2 mth old, she still fuss at my breast, but can latch much better. I was also taught that our body can only meet the demand a day later, so got to let baby suck to know that there's more demand, then our body will make the "extra" milk later.
I found that drinking hot soup or hot milo helps with my milk supply. But it really depends on people.
ak: Yeah, I started to store milk a bottle a day, going back to work mid of next month (taking 3 month ML first). So by then, hopefully got 30 bottles of spare milk
I didn't do that for #1, so was quite stressed because #1 was finishing my supply everyday.