Parenting after a Loss

Help me break up with the pump

I have been pumping 3x a day at work. Today the plan is to drop to 2. I am thinking I'll do that for a week and then drop again next week.  Yeah!

So I've been pumping at 10, 1 and 4.  I was thinking I'd drop the 1:00 and pump at 10 and maybe 3?  WWPAL do?  Does that seem ok? 

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Re: Help me break up with the pump

  • Can you push back the first pump session to 11 or 11:30 and then pump the second time at 3?
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  • That seems okay to me. I went from every 4 hours to every 6 hours and was okay. How much milk are you getting each session?

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  • imagelax15bsu:
    Can you push back the first pump session to 11 or 11:30 and then pump the second time at 3?

    I could do that too. I fed S at around 6:30. 

    JQ-I had been getting maybe 2.5 oz total each session :(

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    imagelax15bsu:
    Can you push back the first pump session to 11 or 11:30 and then pump the second time at 3?

    I could do that too. I fed S at around 6:30. 

    JQ-I had been getting maybe 2.5 oz total each session :(

    :( I think you should be fine. Awesome job, btw.

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  • I cut them out one at a time, every 3-4 days. I was pumping every 4 hours, whcih worked out to 3 times at work.

    So I adjusted the time between and pumped every 5ish hours to make 2 sessions, then 4 days later did only one mid-day session, then 4 days after that I hung up the pump.

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  • I agree with PP's but wanted to say great job and congrats on breaking up with the pump.  It is so liberating!
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  • imagehopingwaiting:
    I agree with PP's but wanted to say great job and congrats on breaking up with the pump.  It is so liberating!

    Thanks! I am super excited about this break up. 

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  • I want to break up with the pump so bad, but want to keep going for a year.

    When I dropped one of the evening pumps I slowly cut out the length of time I would pump. Normally I pump for 15 mins so I dropped it to 10 mins, then 5 and then stopped.

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