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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read all the in-between but your OP was perfectly clear to me.  Baby currently eats about 2-3 oz.  You would like DH to thaw 4, put 2-3 into the bottle, and leave the remainder in the fridge for the next bottle. He is thawing 4, feeding 4 and consistently tossing an ounce or two AT EACH FEED.  He is also tossing an additional 1-3 ounces every night because he is only willing to freeze exactly 4 ounces and he refuses to just save the leftover for the next day.

20 ounces a week is a low estimate of how much is getting needlessly tossed and even at 20 ounces a week, most pumping moms would be furious.  If he does anything other that immediately apologize, then you have a big problem.  He does not want to be a parent.  He views all child-related labor as your project and if he “helps” then he will do it however badly he wants.[/quote]

I don’t think this is happening because she is breastfeeding the baby, then pumping.  She seems to want to hoard tons of milk.  And as a means to accumulate too large of a stash she is having DH feed him 1 bottle per day of the frozen milk.  I don’t think she is exclusively pumping…it sounds like an oversupply issue and she wants to hoard milk[/quote]

I’m the original poster.

I have had an oversupply from the start but you’re wrong about feeding. We are mostly pumping and bottle feeding. I work on nursing but that happens only a couple of times a day and he doesn’t actually eat all that much. He gets almost his nourishment from a bottle.

That’s why I said the excess milk from the bottle adds up. It could be used for the next feeding. [/quote]

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