Breastmilk Content and Volume
Breastmilk content and volume changes on a daily basis during lactation. A common misconception of moms as they move further from the postpartum time period is that their breasts should not ever feel softer, and they have to continually produce more and more milk for baby’s needs. In fact, it is the opposite: breastmilk increases its calories over time (whereas formula is a fixed caloric content so a larger baby needs more and a smaller baby needs less). Hyperlactation (high supply) and hypolactation (low supply) are also relevant to this discussion.
Resources for Breastmilk Content and Volume
Complete Topic List
- A Word About the Terminology “IGT”
- Abscess
- Acanthosis Nigricans
- Accessory Breast Tissue
- Adenoma
- Alcohol or Marijuana and Breastfeeding
- Anatomic Variants
- Antibiotics for Mastitis
- Apps
- As you Embark on this Journey, BE PRESENT
- Axillary breast tissue
- Babies Who Start To Sleep More At Night
- Birth Control and Breastfeeding
- Biting
- Blebs
- Bloody Discharge
- Bloody Milk
- Bottle Nipples
- Bowel Movement Challenges
- Bras
- BRCA and Breastfeeding
- Breasts
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Basics
- Breast Basics After 1 Year
- Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding
- Breast Cancer during Pregnancy
- Breast Cancer while Breastfeeding
- Breast Conditions Not Unique to Pregnancy and Lactation
- Breast Conditions Unique to Pregnancy and Lactation
- Breast Growth
- Breast Growth and Engorgement
- Breast Lump
- Breast Masses and Conditions
- Breast Reductions
- Breast Surgery or Breast Biopsy
- Breastfeeding and Previous Breast Cancer Treatment
- Breastfeeding Stools and Oversupply
- Breastfeeding Supply List
- Breastfeeding While Pregnant or Undergoing IVF
- Breastmilk Content and Volume
- Breastmilk Content, Volume Recommendations, and Infant Weight Gain
- Breastmilk Research
- Burns on Breast
- Burping
- Cancer Screening during Pregnancy and Lactation
- CAUTION: Nipple Shields
- Choking and Gasping at Breast
- Chronic Disease or New Onset Illness Impacting Milk Production
- Cleft Palate, Down Syndrome, Other Congenital Conditions
- Clicking
- Cluster Feeding
- Colic
- Colostrum
- Colostrum in Pregnancy
- Complementary Foods
- Conceiving and/or Pregnancy While Breastfeeding
- Cries the Minute We Put Baby Down
- Cries While Feeding
- Cysts
- Dermatitis (eczema)
- Developmental Leaps
- Diaper Rash
- Difficulty Walking
- Distractible Baby
- DMERs and Nipple Nerve Pain
- Donor Milk
- Dream Feeding
- Early Solids
- Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Engorgement
- Engorgement, Breast Lymphedema, and Pain
- Engorgement, Mastitis, and Everything Related
- Environmental Exposures
- Environmental Toxins
- Exclusive Pumping
- Exercise, Weight Loss, and Nutrition
- Exhaustion
- Extra Nipples
- “Fat Globules” In Milk
- Fat Necrosis
- “Flat” Nipples
- Feeding at the Breast should NOT BE TIMED
- Feeding by Age and Stage
- Feeding Cues
- Feeding Questions
- Feeds Become More Comfort Oriented and Infants Distractable
- Fibroadenoma
- Flow Sensitive Baby
- Flus, Colds, COVID
- Formula or Donor Milk Supplementation
- Four-Month Developmental Leap
- Freezer Stashes
- Fungal Infections
- Fussy Baby
- Galactocele
- Gassy Baby, More at Night
- Gender Affirming Surgery
- General Considerations
- General Infant Concerns
- Getting Your Period
- Gigantomastia
- Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
- Granulomatous Mastitis
- Growth Curves
- Growth Spurts
- Hair Loss Postpartum
- Hamartoma
- Hand Expression
- Health History and Medications
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- “High Lipase” Milk
- “Hindmilk and Foremilk Imbalance” and Baby Weight Gain
- Home Scales
- Hospital Or Birthing Center
- Hyperlactation (Oversupply) and Breastfeeding Stools
- Hyperkeratosis (“Warty Nipple”)
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM or GM)
- If You Feel Silly Doing It…
- If You Have an Older Child at Home
- Increasing Production
- Induced Lactation
- Infant Allergies
- Infant Needing Surgery
- Infant Questions
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Versus Engorgement
- Injectables and Herbs
- “Insufficient Glandular Tissue”
- Inverted Nipples
- Iron
- Is Baby Getting Enough?
- Jaundice
- Keloid Scars
- Keloids and Breastfeeding
- Labor
- Lactating Adenoma
- Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM
- Lactogenesis I: You May Notice Colostrum Production
- Lactiferous Sinuses
- Latch
- Latch and Position
- Leiomyoma
- Letdowns
- Likes to Be Held
- “Lipstick” Nipple Shape
- Long Feeds
- Lopsided Breasts
- Loud Baby/Baby Noise
- Low Supply
- “Low Supply”: Continued Early Supplementation
- Lymph Nodes
- Lymphedema
- Male Breast Cancer
- Massage
- Mastitis
- Maternal Health and Illness
- Maternal Questions
- Milk after weaning
- “Milk Coming In” and Engorgement
- Milk Fistula
- Milk Stasis
- Mondor’s Disease
- Montgomery Glands
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy
- Mythbusters
- Nevi (Moles) and Seborrheic Keratoses
- Next Steps: 3-6 Weeks
- Nipple adenoma
- Nipple Areolar Complex (NAC) Procedures
- Nipple Breast Masses and More
- Nipple Color Changes During Breastfeeding
- Nipple Crust
- Nipple Discharge
- Nipple Eversion
- Nipple Masses and Conditions
- Nipple Pain during Breast Feeding
- Nipple Piercing and Tattooing
- Nipple Reduction
- Nipple Shape
- Nipple Shape and Size
- Nipple Shield
- Nipple Sizers and other Gadgets
- Nipple Wound Care
- Nipples
- Nursing Strike
- Older Siblings
- Oncolactation
- One Year Plus
- Oral Contraceptives/IUD
- Other Chronic Diseases
- Paget’S Disease
- Pain
- Periductal Mastitis
- Persistent Pelvic Pain and/or Incontinence
- Pets
- Phlegmon
- Placental Encapsulation
- Plastic Surgery
- “Plugs”
- Plugging
- Poland Syndrome
- Pooping
- Position and Latch: It’s All About the POSITION!
- Postpartum Mom
- Pregnancy and Birth
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Education
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Support
- Probiotics
- Prominent Lymph Nodes
- Psoriasis
- Pulling Off Breast
- Pumping
- Pumping for Engorgement
- Pumping for 24 Hours
- PUPPP and HIVES
- Rashes
- Refusing a Bottle
- Relationships and Sex
- Review Resources For The “4th Trimester”
- Rooting
- Seek Prenatal Breastfeeding Support
- Self-Weaning
- Sick or Hospitalized Infant
- 6 Weeks to 6 Months
- Sleep
- Sleep Training
- Sleepy Baby
- Short Feeds
- Silicone Rupture and Silicone Injections
- Six Months to One Year
- Sleep Regression
- Sleep Training
- Sleepy Baby
- Skin Tags
- Skin to Skin
- SNS (Supplemental Nursing System)
- Spitting up Blood & Bloody Diapers
- Still Looking Pregnant
- Stop Bottle Nipples
- Subacute Mastitis
- Substances of Abuse
- Supernumerary Nipples
- Supplemental Nursing System (“SNS”)
- Surgery and Breastfeeding
- Surgery on Breast or Chest Wall/Lungs/Heart
- Surgical Procedures while Breastfeeding
- Surrogacy
- Surrogacy and Donor Milk
- Sweating
- Swelling Under Arm (Axillary Breast Tissue)
- Syringe Feeding
- Tandem Breastfeeding
- Tattoos
- 10-10-10
- The “4th Trimester”
- They feel soft, do I have enough milk?
- Thrush
- Timing of Feeds
- Tounge Tie (ankyloglossia)
- Trash the Pump and Dump
- Triple Feeding
- Tubular Breast
- Using Mom as Pacifier
- Vaccines
- Vaginal Dryness
- Vaginal Dryness and Night Sweats During Lactation
- Vasospasm
- Viral Infections
- Water for Babies
- Weaning
- Weaning a Baby
- Weaning from Pump
- Weight Gain
- Weight Loss
- Weight Loss and Need for Donor Milk or Formula
- Wet and Poopy Diapers
- What is this weird/bad feeling with my letdown (DMERS)
- Will Baby Sleep Longer If He Takes More Milk in a Bottle?
- Wrist and Neck Pain
- Yeast
