How many oz do you have to pump total per day?

asnowracer · September 2009

When i was just pumping for bottles I was fine, I'd pump 3 times and get 5 oz each.

Now he's eating cereal and that's throwing a wrench in my plans. I have to come up with an additional 4 oz each day. He eats it once at daycare and once before bed. I mix it with 2 oz of bmilk each time. (I have about 10 bags in the freezer so I have a cushion.)

I want to avoid pumping at home. But its hard to get that additional 4 oz each day.

How many oz do you have to pump total when you introduced cereal? Will we stop cereal at some point and I wouldn't have to worry about it? How many oz does your baby eat?

sorry so many q's.

AngieandTony · September 2009

we only did cereal by itself for a few weeks, and then i started mixing the cereal flakes with the fruits (some we made ourselves using bm) that he liked. now that he's getting iron through veggies we don't use cereal that much anymore. hth

cindy453 · September 2009

Does he STTN? If he does, could you pump once before you go to bed? Or, you can mix the cereal with water...

makclair · September 2009

We just mixed the cereal with water and then added fruit. He hated it with bm.

mic2004 · September 2009

I don't mix the cereal with breastmilk so I don't have to pump extra. I just use warm water.

tonishep · September 2009

That's funny as my little guy hated it with water and will only eat it with milk. I found i needed about 4 additional ounces a day, but I noticed he also wouldn't finish the bottle associated near the rice cereal feeding, so I started borrowing 1 tbsp at a time of the milk / bottle from that feeding (as I XP). That's worked out great as I was really stressing out not having more milk immediately.

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