Thread: Low carb and nursing?

Hey everyone.......I've been gone since about this time last year when I found out I was pregnant.....I now have a beautiful 3 month old son and am back to low carb living.

I checked with my pediatrician before going back to induction and he said a l/c diet wouldn't hurt the baby so I was free start anytime I wanted. I occasionally pump and my daughter will feed the baby breastmilk in a bottle because I was planning on returning to work and wanted to get him used to a bottle. One of the benefits of this is I get to see how much he's eating. At his 2 mos appt the Dr said his weight gain is fine, he's growing according to "normal". I commented that he's eating about 3 to 3.5 oz's per feeding and he's eating about every 3 hours, the Dr said he should be working his way up to 4 and even 5 oz's per feeding. I started l/c last week, today is the 1 week mark and I went all out and started in the induction phase and have kept it to 20 carbs or less a day.

Here's the problem/question. The baby seems hungry after nursing. He gets angry when the milk stops (I can tell by the swallowing pattern that he is not getting anything anymore). 2 weeks ago 3 times I was able to pump 4 oz's, over the course of the last week it's been decreasing to today I was only able to get a hair over 2 oz's. Anyone with experience with this? Is the l/c diet contributing to the decreased milk production?

Any comments would be appreciated!!

TIA

Maggie -

Thank you very much. That helped a LOT!

No I don't supplement.... I've never needed to and don't want to. Remember this isn't a long term issue.....I just went through the first week of induction and towards the end of the week it started becoming a problem.

I've moved into maintenance levels now and it seems to be improving again. I'm not a COMPLETE idiot (although I feel like one), I did check with my pediatrician first ..... but to his credit I didn't say how low. Luckily it was only a week and I caught it right away. Hopefully it will work out quickly, in the meantime I do have frozen milk to give him if needed while I do everything I can to get my supply back up.

This is the first time in my life that I'm ashamed of myself for losing 7.5 lbs, I felt extremely guilty after I realized what I had done, that's why I posted here, I knew someone would know for certain.
Thanks again!!