Please help! My milk is almost gone and dd is frustrated

[bluedaisy]

I had a stomach flu on Monday and my supply is still not back, i'm hardly producing any milk.

my dd is only 15 months and still gets 75% or more of her calories from bm...she is getting so frustrated...she will try to nurse and then bite. the past two nights it has taken me an hour and a half to get her to sleep because she gets so upset that there is no milk.

please help! i can't take the biting and my dd is so fussy...how can i get my milk back???

is it normal for supply to be this much affected by just one day of illness or could there be something else going on?

[liberal_chick]

Is it possible you're pregnant? That's the only other suggestion I've got.

I'll be watching this thread b/c my 12 month old ds is feeling much the same way since I got pregnant and my milk started going the way of the dodo.

[bluedaisy]

Hi liberal chick, congrats on your pregnancy!

I've taken 3 pg tests, lol, the last one was about an hour ago . Aside from my supply going down, i've had lots of spotting, exhaustion, terrible moods, and a funny stomach (which could be from the flu). My period is also late..i've only had one since I had dd in early jan so i know it's normal to take a while to get back to a period every month.

But all the tests were negative, so I'm thinking it must be from the stomach flu or PMS or something.

[kayabrink]

When I was nursing ds, my supply used to dip everytime I was about to get my period, so your PMS theory could be it. Also, I had the stomach flu last week and 3mo dd nursed and cried pretty constantly for the next three days. I drank TONS of water, and things seem better now. Oh, and sleeping a lot, thought not easy to orchestrate, can really help.

[pbjmama]

It sounds like you are still sick. Along with eating, drinking and resting you could try mothers milk tea, oatmeal, fenugreek.