Do I have enough milk?

It all begins with carrying your pregnancy, your child up to nine months. At 17 weeks your body has produce breastmilk for your infant if you were to go into labor sooner than 40 weeks.

I am happy to say once you have birthed your child and birthed the placenta, your brain and your body are ready to produce milk for your child with stimulation of the mammary glands, increase growth of your areola so your child can see and smell the scent of the amniotic fluid from the placenta.

The great beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve as your motherhood journey continues you must put baby to the breast 8-12 times a day to help baby meets its milestones while developing milk production and support growth and development of the brain and intestinal gut.

Your goal should be to make milk through skin to skin contact often and increase milk production for your precious baby through nipple stimulation through removing the milk through breastfeeding your baby. It should feel right for you right now.

Later you will reap the benefits of a fast growing child, rolling over onto one side, sitting up, babbling, drooling and reciting your role call name(mama/dada) all due to your committed time to breastfeeding, hand expression, pumping milk into a bottle or feeding your child artificial milk. Please take care of yourself and continue to provide breastmilk to your baby 8-12 times a day. It takes a village to feed and support a family. Create your village, do not attempt to do this alone.