Ma cow speaks

Well the pointers to “breastfeed successfully” is (now that I can look back relaxed about it) is .. well relaxing. The moment you tax yourself with whether or not my baby is getting enough, along with other worries of domestic and office life, you start producing more.
I think the worst period of time for a breast feeding mom is 3-6 months. Usually doctors prefer you only breastfeed for first 6 months and baby starts demanding more from end of 2nd month. Add to the fact that, probably now the extra help you were getting from mom/mom-in-law/nurse is gone and you are worrying yourself to death how the hell are you going to manage office on top of this, and you are in trouble.
It was during this period, I started taking advice on breastfeeding from anyone and everyone, for the first time in my life, without checking any logic behind it, I followed them all. My baby was not gaining enough weight, and my adrenaline did NOT have the flight option. So it was fight all the way for me. So I pretty much tried everything, sabu and milk, suji and milk, methi, daal and even some ayurvedic medicine called lactare. Well the last one definitely works. So does sabur payesh, of course it also make you gain like a kilo every other day, but when your baby does not gain enough, you tend to forget everything else. I don’t know whether methi leaves or the spice makes you lactate more or not, but they taste very well, so I used to consume them like mad. Same true with Suji-r payesh.
The hardest part is I think consuming enough milk. With lactare 3 glasses of milk you have to drink, then there is additional protinex powdered milk so that you have enough omega 3 fatty acid to help baby grow brain (really just eat a load of fish, thats the tasty way of making a brainy offspring), then there is sabu/suji and what not payesh. And i didnt like milk to begin with. I was drinking one and half liter of milk everyday. It was a pain.
But at the end of it, now that my baby is on solids and my feed is just supplement, I have realized the only thing that matters is that one has to relax. Let go of things. Let the cook maintain the kitchen, let the maid dirty up the house, mother should just sit back, relax whenever the baby permits. Cause when baby wakes up thrice in the middle of the night, so will the mom. There is no escaping that. Of course it’s much easier said than done. When one says "managing just the baby" they don’t realize it’s not a semantically correct statement, there is no "JUST" the baby. Its hard work, very hard work "doing just the baby".
So end of the day my opinion is relax, grab any sleep you can, try lying down every time baby takes a nap. In fact it’s very stressful trying to relax that way, your body clock is not accustomed to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and go back to sleep at 9, but if your baby does that, unfortunately you would have to at least try doing the same.
And to give yourself strength to go through such rigorous routine of relaxing, just keep chanting, just for few months... just for few months. Cause trust me, babies do fall into a more humane routine soon enough. Till then ...best of luck. ;)