Tomorrow is my first day back to work and LO will be staying home with DH. My question is that today LO slept from 10pm til 830am. If this happens again tomorrow or any other day she is home with DH should I just let her sleep and pump before I leave or wake her to feed?
She will be in daycare 4 days a week and home with myself or DH the other 3 days. On daycare days we have to leave the house about 730.
I have a good freezer supply (about 200 oz) but still worry about the decreased supply since I can probably only pump 2 times a day at work.
Yes the same thing happens to me. I do wake up engored, she eats from one side, falls back to sleep, and I pump both sides in order to be comfortable and add to my stash. (I have a very healthy supply.) I'm a FTM and I guess I'm deciding if it's selfish of me to wake her to eat or it's better for her (one less supplemented feed.) Thanks
When my DD was little, I used to wake her on my office days at 4:30a, change her, nurse her, and then put her back to bed. She would sleep until 7a when my DH would get her up and ready for daycare. Back then I was only going to the office 3 days a week. The other days, when I was teleworking, I'd pump before working and then wake her at 7a for a nursing session.
This time around I'll do something similar though I'll likely only have one office day per week.
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I appreciate it. I'm going to wake her tomorrow if she doesn't wake on her own. She'll go back to sleep after and I'll pump. I don't see how I can pump more than twice at work as I work In a hospital and have to see patients in a group setting from 8am - 1130/12 then again from 115 to 430. Hoping to pump at 1130, 1245, and if I can at 230. We'll see how it goes.
Work went well and I found 3 times to pump at work along with once after the am feed. 3 times a day is going to e difficult to maintain and still get all of my work done within my time frame of 8-430. I may have to add a night pump or something when my supply drops.
LO decided to wake at 430 and 5 minutes after my alarm at 645 so I didn't have I worry about waking her.
I always wake up early to pump both sides, shower and get ready, and then wake DD to nurse her. My morning pump makes up for the fact that I can only pump every 4 hours at work instead of every 3. It works well for me although waking up early to pump is awful.
Re: Returning to work tomorrow question
This time around I'll do something similar though I'll likely only have one office day per week.
2010: Infertility
October 2015: missed miscarriage #2 at 11 weeks (trisomy 22)
Dx: balanced translocation and LPD
TTC since Oct 2011
BPF 02/19/12, EDD 10/31/12, natural m/c 02/28/12 (4w6d)
IVF (BCPs starting 10/30/12, ER 11/18/12, 5dt of 1 beautiful, healthy embryo 11/23/12)
BFP 12/02/12, u/s @ 6w,5d showed 2 HBs! Identical twins!!
Bed rest from 21w-35w due to short cervix, hospital bed rest from 23w-32w due to PTL
Our rainbows were born 07/19/13 (36w, 5d)
LO decided to wake at 430 and 5 minutes after my alarm at 645 so I didn't have I worry about waking her.
Thanks again for all the suggestions.