HELP nursing, pregnancy, milk supply

[WeasleyMum]

Please, anybody that's nursed during a pregnancy. How do you keep your milk supply from dropping, or from drying up altogether? I'm afraid that might be what's happening to me.

I don't know yet if I'm actually PG or not, I'm right at the end of what would be my two-week-wait if we had been trying. We weren't but had an 'oops'. (Never leave all the condoms in the room where the baby's sleeping--lesson learned.) I was going to test in a few days but now I think I'll do it tomorrow b/c this is freaking me out. Anyway suddenly my 10-month-old DS is RAVENOUS. I thought it was just a growth spurt, but for the last two nights he's been nursing all night long, like a newborn. And waking up furious. And fussing during feeding. So it occured to me about 3am, that maybe he isn't getting as much milk as he's used to? If I'm pregnant, how soon could that affect my supply? Before four weeks along?

Anyway I'm completely freaked about the possibility of being preggers-- not b/c I wouldn't want another baby (even though 18 months apart would be... interesting), but because without all of the interventional stuff we did before I know it will probably just be another miscarriage. (My season so far is only 4-1). So the thought of losing my ability to nurse DS, on top of the possibility of another pregnancy and all that entails, has me shaking.

Thanks in advance.

[mamaw/two]

Hormones are powerful things, and it could just be that your body is getting ready for af. I have nursed through three pregnancies and have never had milk dry up that quickly...but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. I just had a scare myself a few weeks ago (ds is also 10 monthes old), I was a week from af being due and my milk suddenly dried up. I could tell because we were having almost no wet dipes and he started nursing like crazy, especially at night. After two days my milk came back and his dipes went back to normal, af showed up right on time.
Another thought is that he could be getting some teeth, my ds also started that a few days ago and has been fussy, clingy, restless, and nursing a ton.
I hope it all works out for you.

[WeasleyMum]

Thanks, Mamawtwo. That is reassuring. Of course AF is due any time now, and so are his teeth! Thank you.

[texmati]

I just wanted to chime in that my supply also tanks the week before AF, so it might just be that. I've also heard that supply shouldn't be affected until midway through pregnancy.

I can't imagine supply being hurt before implantation.

I hope the test shows whatever you want!

[WeasleyMum]

OK I POAS and got a resounding so good. Not that I'd not like another baby, just with our history... better to be careful and planningful. So who knows, it could be AF coming, teething, anything I guess.