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[quote=Anonymous]With the caveat that HOPEFULLY you're getting good advice from the lactation consultant so listen to her over me... Here's my personal experience and what I've heard/read from various sources so offering FWIW. As far as personal experience, I exclusively pumped for #1 because he wouldn't latch, and exclusively nursed number 2 for a while ~6 mos until it didn't work with our schedules any more.

If your baby is eating well from you and gaining weight at 4 weeks and nursing fine (i.e., you don't have to give bottles to fill her up) you DO NOT need to pump! Babies drink what they drink, and your body keeps up. (Obviously if there are special considerations, listen to the healthcare professionals, but I understand generally that it's pretty rare that you'd need to pump to keep up supply if your baby is nursing regularly and gaining weight). It is normal-ish for a little baby to only drink one boob, and then drink the other boob the next time. There's nothing inherently wrong with that!

Exclusively pumping is not fun.  It takes a lot of time. Think about the trade off between time with your baby and the time it takes to pump. For me with #1 anxiety made me do it for 9 months. Looking back, I sort of regret it. He's happy and healthy and all that now, so not to say it was 100% the wrong decision, BUT I don't think I would do it again. Before #2 was born, I told my friends/family/SO to help me keep track of whether exclusively pumping was good for my mental health with #2. ALSO if you want to nurse and use formula it is possible. Will you BF until your kid is 2 like that? Probably not. But if you want to nurse mostly to nurse at night, you can do both. Or pump once per day instead of every time. [/quote]

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