Pumping emergency, help needed please!

[SashaBreeze]

OK so I thought maybe it was a fluke and that it would eventually go away but it is official, after 3 days of consistent results, I dont get milk when I pump.

I am still trying to get the boys to nurse at nearly every feeding and I had been pumping every 3 hours around the clock.  Well some nights I cheated and missed a pumping here and there but for the most part it was every 3 hours at LEAST around the clock.  I then developed a wicked mean case of thrush.  I am thinking I wasn't taking enough time between pumping to wash all the pump parts as completely as I should have been.  Finally the thrush got so bad that I went to pump and started pumping blood! 

So for better or worse, I decided that my nipples needed a break and didn't pump for a few days and only hand expressed instead every few hours.  So I have been trying to get back to pumping for the boys and when I pump I get maybe 1 ounce total from both breast combined.  If I hand express I get between 3-4 ounces both breast combined.  What would make my breast suddenly not respond to the pump?  Is there anything I can do to fix this?

I am really really worried about this because the boys still have a really weak latch and from the way they are acting I am thinking it will be at least another month before they "get it" and we can go to nursing full time.

If my post sounds disjointed then my apologies I am trying to do about a dozen different things while I type this, today is a particularly busy day but I needed to get this post on here and try to get some help as soon as possible.

Thank you all.

[Ravin]

Sounds to me like the thing to do for you is probably to hand express unless/until you get the pump sorted out. I'm impressed you can hand express; I could never get the hang of it.