Contact La Leche League. Herbal tea, something called Mother's Milk is good. Lots of liquids. Make sure she's eating well. Sounds like post-partem depression, I'm not up on that. Talk to her doctor, or a friendly nurse.
Good luck!
The local LLL grand master has more pronouns than I care to repeat, but I’ll check out the tea.
She could be vitamin C and D deficient too getting supplements for those could perk her up a bit.
She takes her vitamins or else she gets the hose again.
Ew, pronouns aren't good. Try to find their website, might be good for researching.
Have her avoid caffeine and chocolate. My kids are 30 and 40, ideas don't come quickly anymore.
What’s wrong with chocolate? She’s been looking forward to the chocolate for 9 months!
Listen to this ^ OP. PP depression caused by the switch in her hormones. You wife may need some help learning to nurse. Baby knows how on instinct. Relaxing is very important as the baby is picking up on her mood. Also critical to nurse on demand. Have the baby in the room if Mom doesn't want to co-sleep. The very act of suckling will help the milk come down. Olde Wife's Tale tip: have wife eat a little cooked oatmeal with her fav sweetener. I don't know what's in it, but it works to increase milk production.
All that can help. It takes time and TBH the world won't end if baby ends up bottle fed. I have heard goat milk is similar in fat content and globular size to human milk if you are having prob finding formula.
You said a lot of important things, Roja. And about goat's milk(for OP)... I just remembered, with my first child, I had a package of powdered goat's milk on hand, just in case. Wonder if that's still good advice? One other thing OP needs to know, relative to "on demand": Substituting formula (or goat's milk) occasionally will lessen the production of mom's milk. Mother Nature is a wonderful thing.
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