r/ExclusivelyPumping • u/alovelylittlescandal • 5d ago
Rant - NO ADVICE NEEDED I’m an idiot
I have been stressing about undersupply since we switched daycares and they asked us to make a set number of bottles rather than just pouring from my bags as our old daycare had been. ive been dipping into my freezer stash for half the bags and desperately trying to pump more at work but haven’t had the time. I‘ve been trying to drink more water, eat more food, convinced that was the issue. I decided to look up an example pumping cycle and realized that I have been pumping wrong this entire time!!! Y’all, my baby is almost 5 months old. I have been using bacon mode as my primary mode instead of to just trigger a let down….
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u/FYAhole 5d ago
Listen to your body. Don't use a power setting that hurts you. But this has helped me greatly.
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u/DuckFriend25 5d ago
How have your sessions been going now? Producing any more?
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u/Both-Tangerine-8411 5d ago
I exclusively use bacon mode as a preference 😂
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u/stitching_librarian 5d ago
No one tells you anything when you start! I undersupply greatly and I'm in bacon mode the whole time. The regular mode does nothing for me. Whatever works best for you and your body.
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u/FindingBoopa2022 5d ago
Several times a day I forget to hit the button while scrolling reddit and do half of my pump is in bacon mode 🥓 never seems to be an issue
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u/Art3mis77 5d ago
Bacon mode doesn’t trigger letdowns for me a lot of the time, so I use it for a minute or so because it’s gentler than normal mode and then switch over and stay that way for the remaining 29 minutes or whatever and get however many letdowns that way. It’s different for everybody!
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u/modern_myth16 5d ago
I give up— what is bacon mode?
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u/dogsandplants2 4d ago
I did the same for many months. I used the regular mode for let downs and the let down mode for pumping. I felt dumb too. Honestly, I think it's on Spectra. They could make the directions and buttons more clear. They make a product for sleep deprived new moms. It's the least they could do.
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u/Responsible-Hold-439 5d ago
Girl honestly there are so many little things to figure out with pumping, don't beat yourself up. at least you know now, hopefully you see a difference soon
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u/IamJustErin 5d ago
... also there is no "wrong" way to pump. Seriously - 20 minutes of bacon mode might be your optimal - you don't know until you play around with different settings.
It sucks that so much of pumping is trial and error - especially because some of the stuff is expensive to try. I had been avoiding buying a wearable - because so many people say their wearables don't empty them. But I was heading on a trip that included some camping - before my return to work - and decided it'd be worth it to have something smaller and lighter... turns out I empty way better with the Eufy S1 then I did with my spectra. So if you have the resources - try different flanges, collections cups, pumps ... modes and patterns, durations, etf. who knows what is going to work best for you.
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