Help with expressing

Hi everyone, Millie has decided to stop feeding (again!), this time however she will drink expressed milk from a cup with a teat (she has never had a bottle). I only had a manual pump which was rubbish so I have bought an electric pump with the intention of expressing so she can still have milk morning and evening as she won't drink formula or cows milk. I just wondered if anyone had any tips for succesful expressing as I don't seem to be gettng that much. The first time I used the new pump I got nearly 4oz in 30mins but since I have only managed about 1 1/2oz in the same time. Any suggestions anyone? Cheers, Kerry xx

i was the same hun, i coudlnt get much out, i think u need to eat lots of food with fat in it, i was told cheese , choc and milk was good to produce more milk but i had already given up by then

soak your breasts with warm water then massage downwards just before you express. its hard to get alot out all the time but expressing regulary should help. i was told between 6 and 8 times a day (although after finally being able to sleep at night after switching to bottle therre was no way i was getting up twice a night to expsress aswell) eat plenty of calcium and protein x

Hey Kerry, I'm a little behind on posts, trying to catch up, sorry I didn't respond earlier. I had the same problem, my boobies didn't want to give it up for anything but Aaralyn's mouth. I was able to express alot at first but when we got into her 7th and 8th months, I could not get anything by expressing (with an electric pump)but Aaralyn was still getting milk by breastfeeding. She just finally weaned herself at around 8 months (I think it was you I mentioned before that I just switched her to whole milk (cow's milk) and she did fine with that. Funny thing is, she is now 4 1/2 and I can still squeeze milk out of my right breast (I even had it tested to make sure it wasn't some other kind of bad fluid), go figure, huh! good luck hun. Sounds like Angelmum has some good advise along with the others

Cheers girls, still not having much success but she drank 3oz this morning of breastmilk mixed half and half with cows milk so with a bit of luck I will be able to slowly switch her on to just cows milk.