>Nope!  I don't think babies are fussy at this time *just* because of low
>supply. It's been a real eye-opener to me to see that babies being offered
>ample quantities of EBM or (sigh) formula by bottle behave in exactly the
>same way in the evenings.  They take 20 ml and doze, then 20 ml more, then a
>little more etc. The fussy time seems to be characterized by the need to
>have little quantities of milk interspersed with lots of holding, cuddling,
>movement.

I once had a client who was using a feeding tube to augment a very low
supply.  She found she had to use the smallest tubing in the evening,
because her baby wanted to nurse all evening regardless, and if he got as
much milk as her regular-sized tubing permitted, he just threw it back up.
So here was a breastfeeding mother who could make her supply any size at
any time... and her baby *wanted* it smaller in the evening.  He wanted to
*nurse* a lot, not *eat* a lot.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY