PLEASE HELP NEW MOM, I can’t pump enough milk
I’m 3 1/2 mpp, I have a Medela hand pump, a Eufy E10, a Medela Symphony and Harmony kit that I can rent the electric pump to use with (but renting is pretty expensive) I have a Medela Pump In Style Pro with MaxFlow coming in this week, and I’m PRAYING my insurance accepts the coverage for the Spectra S1 so it will come in next week. I barely make 1 ml a day, yes 1 MILLILITER. My baby is in the NICU because she was born prematurely and I used to pump at home and bring in the milk I made for her and the nurses will feed it to her, but now I can’t even make enough to give to her. because of all the stress, having her prematurely, and a lot of home issues I ended up completely forgetting to pump for 24 hours, as soon as I remembered I started pumping but since then I haven’t been able to make nearly as much as i used to. I used to even oversupply. I feel like such a failure and like I let her down. Im 19, my mom has been passed since I was a child and I have no mother figures, figuring this out alone is really hard and I feel like I’m an awful parent. It’s so hard to even remember to pump with how fried my brain feels and not having my baby at home to have that on demand need of milk. Any tips on boosting my production A LOT? Or on how to remember to pump? Or did I just completely fail? Am I not able to produce enough anymore? I don’t honestly have a lot of money so getting pump pieces and parts are so hard but I have the correct flanges, and I’m doing my absolute best to do everything I can but I feel like I’m not doing enough