How much milk?

Re: How much milk?

• tokenhoser member

  March 2013

  Enough for the first day, at a minimum (about 15 oz is generous, depending on how young your baby is).

  Generally, start pumping once a day and freeze that. Morning gets you the most volume.
  

  
  
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• Ktrevey

  March 2013

  He is almost 5 weeks, I go back to work in 2 weeks.

   So just enough for one day? I was thinking several days.  

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• candr09 member

  March 2013

  At the very least you will need one day. If everything goes well, you'll pump enough at work your first day to give LO on the second day, and so forth. But there is a chance you might not pump enough right away, so it definety doesn't hurt to have some ex

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• welly01 member

  March 2013

  If I could go on maternity leave again, I would freeze as much as you can.  When I went back to work I had about 300 oz.  I've had a few drops in my supply (temporary, thank goodness) and had to use my freezer stash.  I still have probably

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• kleigh926 member

  March 2013

  tokenhoser:

  Enough for the first day, at a minimum (about 15 oz is generous, depending on how young your baby is).

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• mb314 member

  March 2013

  Freeze as much as you can.  My LO eats more than I can produce in a day, even with adding in a pumping session at night before I go to bed.  I am so thankful that I put together a generous freezer stash (250 - 300 oz) because otherwise we would

  

     
  

  

   

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