Reddit mentions of Defining your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery

Update and resources below:
2 months in now and, while my supply never increased substantially, we have 90% of the breastfeeding relationship I wanted.

I triple fed for the first 3 weeks to try and increase supply during the window where everything is being set. We were lucky enough to find donors and supplement with donor milk and used minbie nipples (we tried syringe feeding, small cups, and the medela SNS but found the first two impractical for the volume being consumed and the last leaky and complex).

Eventually I made it through those first three weeks and then called off pumping because it wasn’t helping and I was super over it - I wanted to spend my time cuddling my baby.

At some point I got curious about the lact-aid - the medela hadn’t worked for us but I loved the idea of supplementing at the breast. In my research I found the below resource for home-made SNS and we’ve been happily using it ever since. We have the best of both worlds - we are breastfeeding, he’s drinking breast milk, we have the freedom of bottles, and I am crossing my fingers that next baby will get more milk out of me after all this stimulation!

Website: BFAR - Breastfeeding After Breast and Nipple Surgeries
https://www.bfar.org/

Book: Defining your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0912500867/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Cb6lDb3F7VP3J

Homemade Supplemental Nursing System parts and video instruction:
https://www.lactationconnection.com/Jack-Newman-s-Lactation-Aid-Feeding-Tube-p/54-5036-2.htm

Facebook page & group: Human Milk 4 Human Babies - California (search for your own location)
https://www.facebook.com/HM4HBCA/