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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any updates, OP. I’m currently going through this right now and leaning towards exclusively pumping. [/quote]

OP here. I didn’t know this thread was still active.

I’ve decided against exclusively pumping. As much I though I would prefer it, I didn’t. Between pumping and feeding, it took about the same time for a nursing session. It didn’t seem worth it because he was still eating every two hours during the day and I felt like I was doing double the work.

I did it for a day and then realized it wasn’t going to work. I did, however, stick to pumping at night and bottle feeding him since that feeding takes like 1 hour and I have to pump the other side. I’ve been doing 3-4 pump sessions for 2 night feeds, and the 1-2 more feedings. I feed him a bottle at the same time and it’s much easier. [/quote]

You’re misinformed. OP makes enough milk but some women don’t and can’t just nurse or pump more instead of supplementing. Sometimes nursing and pumping doesn’t help and you still have low supply. OP feeds her baby every two hours during the day and every three hours at night. This is very normal for newborn. OP said her supply is low in the evening and she needs to supplement after she nurses. This is normal and many women have lower supply in the evening. OP never said she disliked supplementing with formula. She said she wanted to supplement with formula even though she has a large milk supply. [/quote]

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