07/06/2025
You know those influencers and people on social media who show off all their expressed breast milk?
Here’s mine! It doesn’t look like a lot does it?
Them influencers will have people questioning themselves, feeling disheartened or that they aren’t cut out for breastfeeding.
I know I felt that way!
Whilst some can produce huge volumes of milk, I can 100% hand on heart say, a lot of us don’t, and that’s okay, and more common than we realise.
Here I was smiling because that 30ml of my breast milk felt like such a huge achievement!
I couldn’t breastfeed Irisa because of how premature / tiny she was, so I exclusively expressed the entire time she was in the Nicu so that she would have my breast milk for all her feeds through the feeding tube.
I’m telling you, you don’t need bags and bags of it stored in your freezer! I was producing more than enough my baby!
By time the 7 week Nicu journey was over, they handed me a big bag back full of my refrigerated and frozen milk to take home! I was shocked!
Although my milk always felt like a small amount (genuinely the most I ever expressed in one sitting was 130ml and that was first thing in the morning) it covered all of her feeds, which was every 2 hours!
So a reminder for new mums right now in the thick of breastfeeding and expressing, don’t feel disheartened if you aren’t producing as much as what you see on social media, and you are doing amazing 🙏🏼
