I have permission to post a desperate email from a breastfeeding mother of a five month old. He is a hemophiliac, but has not yet required any medical treatment at this time except careful watching. He will require clotting factors in the future. Mom struggled with her supply early on, but pushed through without herbal help--just a lot of nursing and pumping. She did try Brewer's Yeast, which helped her supply but made the baby very gassy. She didn't try fenugreek as it is reported to have mild blood-thinning properties and we were unsure of transmission to the baby. She emailed me the following this am. She thinks supplementing with formula in the evening may help his fussiness even though she's feeding him. I tried to talk her into pumping once in the night and supplementing with that milk in the evenings, but she says he'll wake up and want to nurse. She pumps once in the daytime and is trying to save that milk for when she goes back to work. She says she only gets two ounces at that pumping. She doesn't want to pump more as she says he feeds so frequently anyway during the day that it will just make things worse. We'd appreciate any ideas/help. "I have little ______, who is doing very well weight wise. He had a lot of trouble nursing in the beginning of our nursing journey. And for nearly 2 and 1/2 months now we have had problems again. Here's what he does: He nurses very well early in the morning when I know I have oodles of milk. After not nursing all night. >From then on, he his troubles grow with the day. He has trouble getting enough milk, so he nurses VERY OFTEN, and usually for only 2 or 3 minutes each side, hardly enough time for my milk to let down. But he starts screaming and pops off, when I burp him he is throwing himself back down to nurse more....just to repeat the cycle. By evening, when he's tired....because he won't nap hardly at all, he is a bear! He is screaming ALOT and I can't even feel my milk let down by 6ish, as he tries to nurse every hour. He is eating solids. We did rice cereal for two and a half weeks and then have moved onto some foods, he has had sweet potatoes, squash and carrots. He does well eating. And he only eats rice cereal about 3-4 T. for breakfast and then half a small container of baby food for lunch and dinner as well as 2-3 T of rice cereal. Please help I am at my wits end, I don't know how to help him. I do think he could be teething, but tylenol does not help and we have also tried little tummies to see if it was gas. Sometimes I think that is the answer but not every night. Are there any ideas you may have for us, I want so badly to nurse for at least a year! Thanks," *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome