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LESSON #2
BREAST FEEDING BASICS
How to Make a Good Supply of Breastmilk
A woman’s breasts respond to her baby feeding. As her baby feeds, her brain gets the message that her breasts need to make more milk, to replace what her baby is taking. The more milk a baby takes from the breast, the more milk the mother’s breasts will produce. In this way, there is always enough – and often more than the baby requires. If her baby does not feed well, she will not produce as much milk. This is the principle of supply and demand.
When you understand supply and demand it's easy to see how giving a breastfeeding baby formula in the first 4-6 weeks can reduce a mother's milk supply. Because a mother's breasts produce enough breastmilk to replace what her baby takes from her breasts, her body would slow milk production if nursing sessions were being replaced with formula feeds.
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