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[quote=Anonymous]No wrong answers here. My kids are teens now (the thread showed up on the recent topics page for those wondering why the heck a teen mom is responding). I took 12 weeks off with each of my two kids.

With kid 1, it was 9.5 months pumping at work 2 times a day (kid was 3-12.5 months old). With kid 2, it was 9 months (ages 3-12 months) with 2 times pumping at work and then a nighttime pump after the kid went to bed when my supply started to drop when kid was around 9 months.

Kid 1 was a smaller baby, and I had an oversupply early on so ended up with a significant freezer stash that lasted for several months after I stopped pumping.

Kid 2 was a bigger, hungrier baby. I wasn't anti-formula. Both kids had some newborn feeding issues that required formula supplementation in the early weeks. I really debated about that nighttime pump, but, for me, it was easier to do that quick pump than worry about formula.

I had a colleague who had a second baby around the time I had my first, and she didn't respond to a pump well at all. She did pump at work, with a rented hospital-grade pump for about 3 months after returning, but it was mainly to keep up supply enough to nurse mornings/evenings/weekends with the baby.[/quote]

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