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[quote=Anonymous]Damn, I could write this one myself. I am doing the same with my 4 month old. Breastfeeding never worked out for a variety of reasons and I planned to FF. He will take both the Enfamil NeuroPro liquid and powder formula, but it’s hard to find it on shelves, and when I do, there is a limit. I switched to exclusively pumping at 1 month. He gets 4-8 ounces of formula a day. I have slowly been stockpiling formula each week to hopefully stop pumping at 6 months.

This is what I do

- I pump every 3 hours on a schedule. Think 7, 10, 1, 4, 7, 10, 1, and 4. Sometimes I do skip the 1am pump because my baby sleeps 11 hours and I don’t want to get up. This is where I feed a little more formula or frozen milk if I don’t pump as much at the 4am feed.

- I have a Spectra but I also have a hands free pump. There are many options on these but I like the Elvie.

- I also use the Comotomo bottles. We have 10 of them but now he only uses 5 a day.

- I had two sets of pump parts and bottles. I had two sets of Medela bottles ( one 5oz and one 8oz) to keep my milk in the fridge.

- I follow the CDC guideline of 4 hours and 4 days. [/quote]

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