Or maybe, where's the baby?  The phantom one those breasts were trying to
supply til 3 months, I mean.  (Insufficient baby syndrome strikes again.)
Debi Page Ferrarello posted on a mother whose supply takes a nose-dive at
three months, in the absence of any obvious cause.
I don't know where the milk is, but I wonder what she was doing with all the
pumped milk if she was regularly expressing 6-8 ounces from the opposite
side while nursing the baby on the other.
Is her supply now merely appropriate for the one actual baby, or is it
inadequate for that baby?  Does she smoke (excuse me if this is an offensive
question)?  Have her menses resumed?

We had a woman who contacted us (BF mothers' org.) because of dwindling
supply and a reluctant nurser several months out.  She had been a generous
donor to our local milk bank, had a hospital grade pump, and was
breastfeeding her own baby.  Before she got registered as a donor she was
already pumping for comfort, but that milk (large quantities, in freezer)
could not be donated as she was not following the bank's collection protocol
at the time.  She panicked when the 'pull date' was approaching and started
feeding the baby her old frozen milk by bottle, while CONTINUING TO PUMP FOR
THE BANK.  Don't want to 'waste' anything, do we?!  Her supply dropped
dramatically as demand went from baby + bank to just The Bank, and I think
she actually weaned the baby to bottle and THEN stopped pumping because she
had reached the time limit our bank will accept milk from one donor (own
baby must not be over 6 months).

I hope the lady in our town was unique in her tragic ignorance, and that
there is some other, obscure explanation for your friend's problem, if
indeed it is a problem.  Sorry I don't have a flash of inspiration about
what it could be.

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