Anonymous wrote:Stop pumping if you have no room for breast milk.

How else do you expect her to feed her baby?

Stop pumping if you have no room for breast milk.

I’m with PP. Pumping sucks. I pumped 40-50 ounces a day and froze it all. I was able to stop pumping at 6 months and had enough milk to make it almost a year. My friend did something similar but didn’t have that large of a supply. She stopped at 6 months and fed 1-2 bottles of breast milk with formula. I would keep going and stop pumping early. Pumping will ever much harder when you a mobile baby and you need to watch him all the time.

Anonymous wrote:Cabbage leaves in bra

No. That will dry your supply up.

There are plenty of low supply mamas who would love your extra. Consider donating it.

Not my problem (so no personal experience) but a friend with forceful letdown said she laid back and that helped her baby.

Cabbage leaves in bra

Anonymous wrote:Don’t. I would freeze everything and just stop pumping when you have enough milk to get your baby to 1 year.

OP here. I would do that but we are running out of freezer space. I will have to feed him freezer milk everyday to rotate my stash to keep room in my freezer.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need to pump at all now? Just hand-express before you nurse and nurse a regular schedule.

I certainly wouldn’t keep pumping now and freezing it! It’s newborn milk and shouldn’t be frozen for more than six months.

OP here. He is used to eating from a bottle. My milk is too forceful and he chokes eating it.

My baby is no longer a newborn but I read you can freeze milk in a deep freezer for 12 months and use it. We have used frozen milk from when he was a newborn to rotate supply and he had never had any issues with it.

OP here. I tried hand expressing and using a Haakaa but that gave me very painful clogs in my breasts.

You could try manually expressing with a haaka to get over the initial forceful let down.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need to pump at all now? Just hand-express before you nurse and nurse a regular schedule.

I certainly wouldn’t keep pumping now and freezing it! It’s newborn milk and shouldn’t be frozen for more than six months.

Milk can be frozen for a year. I gave my 6 month old milk frozen between 1-3 month and both the pediatrician and lactation consultant said it was fine.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you need to pump at all now? Just hand-express before you nurse and nurse a regular schedule.

I certainly wouldn’t keep pumping now and freezing it! It’s newborn milk and shouldn’t be frozen for more than six months.

OP said she can’t nurse because her letdown is too forceful. Do you have any idea how difficult and painful it will be to hand express such a large amount of milk?

Why do you need to pump at all now? Just hand-express before you nurse and nurse a regular schedule.

I certainly wouldn’t keep pumping now and freezing it! It’s newborn milk and shouldn’t be frozen for more than six months.

Don’t. I would freeze everything and just stop pumping when you have enough milk to get your baby to 1 year.

I know there have been many breastfeeding posts recently but need help. I started off feeding and pumping two hours as recommended to get my milk in and a strong supply. I was making way too much milk - 50-60oz/day -, and totally lost most of supply trying to decrease it to a more manageable supply. I was able to build it back up over the last week, but now I’m in the same situation. I’m back up to 50oz and I would prefer to be between 30-40oz/day. I have been pumping since two weeks because my letdown is too fast and he doesn’t eat enough at the breast to get the fatty milk. How do I decrease my supply without tanking it?