back to work schedule/cutting out 1 feeding Q

jamdv3

SO I just found out my teaching schedule for this fall. I literally teach class until 12:30 everyday, when I have lunch, then I have conference period from 2-245. I'll nurse DD in the am around 6 or 630, but I'll have to wait until 12:30 to pump.

How and when do I prepare my boobs for going 6 hours without getting the milk outta me?! Do I just cut out the 9/9:30 feeding a week in advance, or should I pump less and less at that time gradually until my body adjusts? 

 Anyone have experience with this?

And will my supply still be sufficient for all my other feedings if I do this?

So do not want to go back to work. . . 

bekahsch23

What time do you start work?

Since I went back to work three months ago this is what I have done:

Feed baby at 6 (he eats 2-3 x during night). Pump at 7 before work. Pump at 1230 at lunch, then pump at 5 after work, then nurse baby at 530.

I didnt do anything different to "prepare" for going back to work and there were a couple days in the beginning that I snuck into a bathroom and used a hand pump to relieve the engorgement but my body adjusted after about 2-3 wks. I still pump more than enough for my baby and am freezing about 24 oz a week. Going back to work sucks but it gets better as time goes on. GL

snicksnack

bekahsch23:

What time do you start work?

Since I went back to work three months ago this is what I have done:

Feed baby at 6 (he eats 2-3 x during night). Pump at 7 before work. Pump at 1230 at lunch, then pump at 5 after work, then nurse baby at 530.

I didnt do anything different to "prepare" for going back to work and there were a couple days in the beginning that I snuck into a bathroom and used a hand pump to relieve the engorgement but my body adjusted after about 2-3 wks. I still pump more than enough for my baby and am freezing about 24 oz a week. Going back to work sucks but it gets better as time goes on. GL

WOW What is your secret to pumping so much extra

bekahsch23

Ha I have no idea why I have so much extra. I'm on vegan diet with lots of water...Even when I was on maternity leave I had to pump in the morning about 5 oz because I had so much milk. I'm sure I encouraged a little overproduction with pumping every morning. I have to pump on the weekends too (sucks) but just in the morning. Otherwise I would be so full all day long and leaking .. I'm looking into breast milk donation options because I wont be able to use all of this and I don't want it all to go to waste

sadielove

My baby is 8 months now, and I dropped my morning pumping session a couple of weeks before school let out for summer. I pumped at 7:00 or so at home and then pumped at school at 12:15. It wasn't a problem for me at all.