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Exclusive pumpers that are back to work...

How many times a day do you pump?  I currently pump 8 times a day, but I think I'll need to drop to 7 times a day when I go back to work.  I'm concerned about what it will do to my supply though.

Re: Exclusive pumpers that are back to work...

  • When I first came back to work, I was pumping 6 times a day.  Once in the morning before work, 3 times at work, once in the evening and then once before bed.  After I had been back to work for a couple of months, I dropped the evening pump and found that it didn't affect my supply at all.
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  • I basically EP, here is my schedule. 
    Right now during the week I pump about 24 ozs a day, I pump 5 times a day, nurse twice during a day. On the weekend it?s opposite nurse/pump.  She eats about 22 ozs of pumped milk a day. 
    4:00-4:30am: I pump, she does not eat.  I put 4-5 ozs in the fridge 4-5 ozs in the freezer.
    6:30-7:00am: Wake up, get dressed, 6oz.
    10:00-10:30am: 5 ozs
    12:30-1:00pm: 5 ozs
    3:30-4:00pm: Nurse
    6:00-6:30pm: Nurse
    7:30-8:00pm: 6 ozs
    STTN 
    8:30-9:00pm: I pump, she does not eat.  I put 2-3 ozs in the fridge.

    We recently (about 2 weeks) went from a 5-4-4-5 to a 6-5-5-6.

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