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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My firstborn didn’t latch and I exclusively pumped for 14 miserable months. My maternity leave was spent feeding him, holding him to sleep, and pumping while he was awake and in a bouncer or something.

I didn’t realize until I had my second child (who breastfed and slept) what my maternity leave should have been like. I also had a nanny by that point so I was able to get some time out of the house. After my first, I absolutely knew I would never exclusively pump again. My supply tanked by 9 months with my second and I gave up breastfeeding without any regrets. I enjoyed it while we did it, but it was fine when it no longer worked and my child was happy on formula and is a delightful, incredibly bright 3yo now.

That said, quit if you want to, but you can also drop down to 1-3 pumps a day and combo feed if you want to. [/quote]

This is my post ( not sure if I need to announce this every time but I don’t know how to differentiate myself from other posters).

This sounds a lot like my life but my child is actually a pretty good sleeper. We do have the fancy bassinet ( cheaper than a night nurse) so that does a lot of the work of getting him to sleep. I’m able to pump pretty easily because he only eats and sleeps at this age but it’s still a lot. I think about how much more comfortable I would feel and how maybe I would be able to nap or just go anywhere and be able to not bring anything to pump.

I would drop more pumps but I don’t see that becoming more comfortable for me. Dropping to 6 pumps is pushing it for me because I’m very uncomfortable going longer than 4 hours between a pump.

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