I am starting to lose it a little bit. My supply is drastically swinging, every day. DD is 5 months 2 weeks old and we have been breastfeeding without issue for about 4 months. In the very beginning, I had oversupply, foreceful letdown, foremilk/hindmilk issues, mastitis, & thrush - basically - I had too much milk! But things have been smooth since I met up with an LC and got that stuff worked out. We've been block feeding for awhile.
For the last 2 weeks (pretty much when DD turned 5 mo to the day), every day has been miserable. I wake up in the AM completely over-full, both breasts. They are full to the point of lumpiness, tenderness, pain. DD cluster feeds in the morning (usually 4 feeds between 5 am and 9 am), but it still takes closer to around noon or 1 pm for me to feel comfortable. And then - switch! For the rest of the day, my breasts get softer and softer and emptier until she begins cluster feeding (usually 3 feeds between 6 pm and 8 pm) for night... and there's nothing left! She's crying at the breast now for 4 nights in a row at her last feeding, I squeeze and get nothing more than a few drips... and I end up having to otherwise pacify and entertain her while she rubs her eyes from being exhausted.... for another 45 minutes until there's enough milk to help her sleep. How can I have oversupply and undersupply at the same time?!
I am so exhausted from holding her while she physically fights and struggles for milk. DD sometimes sleeps through the night, and sometimes nurses once or twice. It all seems pretty typical to me, nothing has changed.
My ONLY thought (though it doesn't really explain anything - it's just the only thing that's different) is a brief change in sleeping arrangements. We are kind of "casual co-sleepers". Typically, DD lays with me while she falls asleep. When I go to bed, I take her to her bed. When she wakes, I pull her into bed with me. Sometimes she stays in bed with us, sometimes DH lays her back in her bed. There is really no rhyme or reason to this, other than everyone's mood that night. It has always worked for us. We visited our family for the 4th, and we all went together for 3 days. The kids and I had to stay an extra 3 days. Without DH there, I just had DD sleep with me all night every night. The oversupply was really bad while we were visiting and I assumed it was from the full-time cosleeping, but hasn't changed since we returned. Has anyone experienced this? It's so exhausting being physically miserable.... I am 115 lb and (IMO) already over-sized in the chest area (32DD) - the oversupply is so hard on my back I seriously want to cry and fall over.... and then by the time I get to the end of the day I'm practically in tears watching DD fight for more milk. I haven't given her a bottle since I stopped working in May, but it sure is tempting when she does that 
. Help me!
