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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who pumped exclusively for six months, I don’t think it’s worth it.  There are all these hypotheses about day and night milk and the mother’s body “reading” what the baby needs through their saliva and providing it in the milk.

I got into a rhythm with pumping and didn’t hate it.  I just think it was a waste of time now.  [/quote]

OP here. I do have a good rhythm and most days I’m fine, but like once a week when I’m tired I think about quitting. I make 32-40 ounces a day and freeze up to 12 ounces a day after he eats. It’s hard to give that up when I know I have a good supply and he prefers breast milk. I’ve bought extra pump parts and bottles and feel like I invested a lot of money in this to make it work. I feel guilty about all of it when I have those days that I want to quit. [/quote]

How many times a day are you doing it?  I started cutting back on my sessions and didn’t lose any supply. [/quote]

OP here. 6-7 times a day. I was doing 8 pumps and then dropped down to 7. Now I will do 6 depending on if he wakes up at night. He sleeps 5-8 hours a night and has been sleeping through the night feed most night for the last two weeks. I don’t get up and pump. Sometimes I get engorged and just use my Haakaa to relieve myself a little while in bed and then go back to sleep. I have not had much of a supply change with cutting pumps. I tend to just get more in the morning pump. I plan to cut down to 5 in the next month. I pump every 3 hours from 7am - 10pm and sometimes at 3/4am if he wakes up. I get 4-8 per pump - usually 8 ounces first pump, 8 ounces second pump, 6 ounces third pump, 6 ounces for 4th pump, and 4 ounces for the other 2 pumps. Then I get an additional 4-8 ounces at night but I usually get less for the morning pump if I pump at night. I make 32-40 ounces. [/quote]

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