Adequate milk production?

[Ansett]

Does anyone have a resource or link which tells what a good amount of milk production per day is? In cc's or oz's, doesn't matter to me.
Thanks,
Ansett

[alegna]

It depends on the baby or babies and how old they are and how much they eat Also pumping is NOT a good measure of supply.

-Angela

[Ansett]

Ok, well my baby is 11 days old, and I'm pumping about 30 oz. per day. I'm not breastfeeding because my baby won't latch.

[alegna]

That sounds like plenty at that stage of the game. How often are you pumping? Exclusively pumping is HARD. You will need to be pumping every 2-3 hours around the clock to keep your supply up. How are you feeding baby? I would advise against bottles- try cup feeding, syringe feeding or finger feeding.

Keep trying!

Good luck!

-Angela

[Khourtniey]

It sounds like you have a good supply right now. Never stop pumping because you are "getting too much" ... This could have some not so good consequences.

[RootSnort]

It's challenging, but you can do it!
I've been EPing for 13 months!

[Llyra]

I EPed for DD1 for a long, long time, because she stopped latching early on and I didn't know how to get her nursing again. In the beginning I pumped around 20 oz a day, but by the time we quit I had been up to more than 40. I'd say that 30, at this point, is TERRIFIC. I just froze the excess every day, dated and labeled, so that when we did quit, I had a big supply stored up to keep her going awhile longer.

EPing is hard. It's hard to maintain a pumping schedule AND live anything like an ordinary life, and if you skip pumps your supply will bottom out pretty quickly. The best pump in the world can't extract milk anywhere near as efficiently as a baby, and that also affects your supply. That's what happened to me. Are you actively working to get baby back on the breast?
A good lactation consultant can work wonders. I really wish I'd gotten DD1 to nurse again; I regretted it a lot later on.