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.
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.
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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