Put a sock on it! Increase Milk Supply Hack

Have you heard of the pumping hack that went viral for helping to increase milk supply?

So it’s pumping time and you are sitting under a pump, listening to the wish-washing of your pumping machine expecting ounce after ounce to be flowing in. After what seems like ages, you decide to have a peek at all the yummy breastmilk collecting in the bottles and excitedly you look down in despair at a measly 10mls……. Drip, drip, drip!

How can this be, what the hell is going on? This is not how I imagined it!

This my friends is the Law of Pumping. Much like a watched kettle will never boil, so too will a watched pumping bottle never fill.

So how do you increase milk supply?

The very clever IBCLC Johanna Sargeant from Zurich, Switzerland came up with a clever trick to increase milk supply that went viral practically overnight. Many of you may ask, how has no one come up with it sooner and you’re right…

Simply place a sock over your pumping bottles so you cant see that drip- drip -drip which in turn reduces the stress during the pumping session.
Johanna goes on to say

“Some women are reporting often 2-3 times better milk supply when they remove themselves mentally from the result of their pumping session!”

Like wow, who would have thought something so simple could have such a positive impact.

To be honest , I could never get newborn socks to stay on my babies so this is a much better use for them!!!

Have you tried this milk supply hack?

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