Back in May I posted about having become an honorary grandmom, and how, unhappily, mom had decided not to breastfeed, because baby just wasn't getting it right, and she didn't want to make him cry. So she pumped her breasts and gave him her milk via the bottle. Well, I kept my mouth shut and bought her a good pump. From time to time, in the first few weeks, she would offer Akil the breast, but he'd still get it "wrong" and she didn't persist. Unfortunately, she didn't persist with the pumping either, and by three months had a dwindling supply, and Akil was getting more and more formula. At three-and-one-half months, she called me at four in the morning -- "what do I do" -- she was hysterical. What's wrong, Nikki, I shrieked with concern. "Akil's nursing!!! What do I do?" It turns out, she was hysterical with laughter. While co-sleeping and cuddling, Akil started nursing, CORRECTLY, and got mad when her breasts ran out of milk, and Nikki wanted to know how to get her milk supply back. Well, that was about a month ago. Nikki started putting him to breast ad lib, and pumping at work every two to three hours. And not trusting to process alone, also took fennugreek, blessed thistle and mothers milk tea. It is now four weeks later, and she has abundant supply. And Akil is TOTALLY breastfed!!!! My father says "Nothing is impossible. Some thing's just take a little longer." Chanita San Francisco *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html