Olivia Munn Talks About Struggles with Breastfeeding/Low Supply

[ellie_andrews]

New Mom Olivia Munn Laments 'Low Supply' of Breast Milk: 'Breastfeeding Is so Hard' https://t.co/vJxGQikxxC
- People (@people) January 20, 2022

** mentions trying tinctures, tea, supplements, multiple lactation consultants but still struggles with low supply

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I can relate hard. Breastfeeding didn't last outside of the hospital for me. I

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[sarahvma]

I had low supply and it's crazy how judged and angry it can make you feel. There are soooo many "breastfeeding is the only way to feed your baby. Anything else makes you a lazy dirtbag"-style comments on social media.

[coutureable]

SAME, I had low supply on top of latching issues due to the anatomy of my breast. They don't tell you when you have big ol tiddies and soft areola with short nipples it's very hard to get a good latch. Couldn't use a nipple shield, it caused me to bleed.

And the lactation consultants at hospitals will swear up and down you're just doing it wrong. I wasn't even leaking any colostrum in the first 2-3 days after giving birth and they would NOT believe me. Nothing came out. It's the most frustrating experience ever.

[sarahvma]

Don't get me started on lactation consultants. Honestly, I went to a breastfeeding clinic and an incredibly nice woman watched the latch, weighed the baby, and was like, "Everything's perfect. You just don't make enough. Don't you want to spend time being a mom and not have to pump all day?"

I did. And yet I kept pumping for another six months. I should've taken that advice much sooner. But I was so grateful to her for being a "breastfeeding expert" who had the courage to say, "It's fine to just not do this."

[paixetdamour_x]

Ugh I feel you on taking the advice sooner. My lactation consultant was similar. She said I could do a ton of things to try to up my supply, but it’s all so a mental health thing.. trying to feed the baby, then bottle feed the baby, then try to pump.. but what do you do with the baby? It was way too much.

[swearwolves]

<3 yep yep! my mum does lactation consulting sometimes at work when the usual one is away and she always says the most important thing is that the baby is being fed. whether that be with breast milk or formula because you aren’t producing milk, it doesn’t really matter in the end because either way you are still providing your baby with what it needs!

[sarahvma]

Bless her.

[eva_hagberg]

I am so so sorry!

[fivil]

They don't really go into the anatomical reasons of why some breasts just don't produce as much. One of my friends had tubular breasts, they don't contain as much of the milk producing breast tissue so the breast simply couldn't make as much as other shapes of boobs.

I also had short nipples and nipple shields didn't work for me. Ended up pumping instead of breastfeeding. It was incredibly hard to accept, though, I remember crying multiple times over it.

[takopoly]

Me too, babe. I pumped for 9 months and I produced a lot of milk but the guilt and feeling of failure were brutal.

[coutureable]

I was told by my LC "larger breasts with very soft areola are the hardest breasts to get a suck reflex on with a newborn". They tried to explain to me how to smash my boob into a shape that would elicit the suck reflex. Didn't work. THEN my milk came in and my boobs were so engorged my nipples basically disappeared. It was insane. No one ever warns you!

[peroxidelace]

Yep! I have PCOS, so I have tubular breasts and lack of glandular breast tissue. I made no milk.

I had to find this out myself on Google after hours, days and weeks of trying to convince the lactation people my boobs "didn't work."

So frustrating and I wish more were educated on it. I didn't even know I had deformed boobs until then. It was a depressing situation all around.

[flawed_x_design]

The amount of times both me and my (women) friends have had to do our own medical research to learn important things about our own bodies after education and incompetent medical professionals have failed us will always be one of the easiest ways to make absolutely furious and upset.

I'm so sorry you had to go through that, but good on you for finding an answer!

[anna_drenxavier]

People are so weird about it. When I taught college English, a student wrote a paper about why breastfeeding was best, and didn't want to concede that sometimes it literally isn't possible. I don't see why it even matters, as long as the baby is fed. People just need to mind their own damn business.

[ellie_andrews]

i was told i was UNEDUCATED on breastfeeding lol

[my_moloko]

What in the actual fuck, how rude of that person.

[ellie_andrews]

she kept insisting she wasn't anti-formula but then would say formula moms are just uneducated. shew!