I'm with Christine, that poor stimulation has likely had more of an effect
than thyroid levels.  Also, since we know that mothers with lower supply
whose babies can feed effectively, do feed much more frequently than every
three hours, her schedule of expressing may not be adequate to improve
things.  Only if she is double pumping would it even come close - and since
her production in 24 hours at this schedule is 8 ounces, maybe if she
expressed more frequently in the daytime she could increase her daily output
by several ounces.  She may well be able to express nearly an ounce after
just two hours, and that would be more likely to increase production per
expressing over a few days of a more intensive schedule.

Christine suggested trying to feed baby the expressed milk at the breast and
I support that idea.  Mothers usually enjoy working on supply a lot more
when it involves having baby at breast than when it involves keeping company
with a milk-removal robot.  There is reason to expect the baby to get better
and better at feeding, the more practice he gets.  The quicker you can get
all the extraneous stuff out of the picture, the happier everyone will be.

Good luck to this mother, hope you will keep LN updated on her, Theresa!
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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