Breast milk supply
Remember that your breast's will naturally increase your supply.
The more milk your baby drinks from your breast, then the next day
your breasts will make that much milk ready in anticipation. The
baby's suckling stimulates breasts to produce more milk, so while
baby is at your breast suckling there will be milk flowing.
If your baby is not feeding and suckling well, or you start to
feed baby with formula, then your breasts will be making less milk
as baby will not be getting their food from breastfeeding. This
will cause your milk supply to decrease.
Here are some things that you can try toboost your breast milk
supply.
Also...is there really a problem with supply? The best way to
tell is by output. If baby is fussy in the evening, this
doesn't mean that the supply is dropping off, its just normal
behaviour for babies to cluster feed in the evening, and the milk
will be there as long as you put baby to the breast - which might
be VERY frequently at that time of the day - but its normal, and
doesn't mean there isn't anything there.
Often your supply feels like it has decreased but really it has
just started to even out and baby is getting just what they need.
It can take a good 3months until supply settles.
If your baby cries after a feed, the problem may be that baby is
tired or has wind - it may not be due to hunger.