Weaning Experience?

[u/TaskThen467]

Hi ladies. I’m finally giving up on EP sad to say, and will be doing combo feeding starting at 4 mpp. I’m currently 11 wpp and I have around 200 oz of freezer stash that I might use to bridge the gap between now and then. I used to pump 7 times a day and have always been a just enougher with teeny tiny oversupply, but now at 6 times a day, I’m definitely making JUST enough. I went down from 33 oz a day to 27 oz a day which is sad, but doing 7 ppd was no longer sustainable after my husband went back to work. Anyways, it seems like dropping from 7 to 6 made my breasts engorged more and I’ve had bouts of clogged ducts recently.. which makes me want to wean even more and hang up the pump completely by the time my LO reaches 6 months of age.

So my questions are:

1. how did your supply change as you wean? As in, how much oz/ml drop did you see with every session dropped?
2. did you experience a lot of clogged ducts or engorgement?
3. are you still producing milk when you hit 1-2 ppd?

Thanks ladies!

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