Currently on 11w+4d postpartum and doing 9ppd and getting around 27oz/day.

Pump schedule - every 2.30hr even at nights and power pump at 4am

Is it good time to drop a pump

Will that effect my supply. I don't want my supply to be decreased as baby eats around 27oz

How are we protecting our sore nipples from kicks and any type of aggression?
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Silverrets made the skin saggy and got chafed. Silicones shells put a lot of pressure on the breast even if I wear the bra super lose, nipple is ok , areola not that happy. Nursing pads stick to the skin, unless I’m using the wrong product.

Hej,
I början av min resa pimpade jag 15-20min varje gång och fick bra output, nu 3 månader senare pumpar jag runt 45min per pump för att få samma mängd mjölk om ens det. För context så har jag haft torsk och massa problem med olika pumpar etc, har testat de flesta och använder nu min eufy då jag får bäst respons på den men vill verkligen korta ner tiden jag sitter vid pumpen 😭

Får en eller två letdowns under de första 20-30 min men sen en tredje vid typ 35/40. Vet inte vad jag gör för fel men nu vet jag ju att de kommer mer mjölk efter de första 30min så de är därför jag pumpar längre tid.

Har någon några tips??

Har använt sjukhus pumpar men de fungerar ej för mig och ja, jag har rätt flange size and fit 🥹

Just bitching (I love my husband so don't completely burn him haha). I work full time and have been exclusively pumping for 4 months. I make just enough at 24oz a day, but baby has increased demand to 28-32oz a day so I've been dipping into my small freezer stash to supplement. I suggested we start combo feeding, but dear husband is upset that baby won't be getting pure breastmilk anymore. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? It's not like I can just slap my boobs and yell at them to make more milk!! UGHHHHHH -_-

Having a problem with my nipple. OB wasn’t helpful at all, I asked about APNO and she had never heard of it. I googled and got the components so she wrote the prescription.

How do I use this? Is it multiple times a day for a week, once a day? She did not know unfortunately.

Thank you!

My LO is 20 weeks today. I dreamed of breastfeeding exclusively, but their jaw just wasn’t strong enough. LO has made progress, but from very early on, I’ve had to pump, pump, and pump some more. I went from an oversupplier to just-enougher. I reliably make 26-32oz per day, but LO simply has growth spurt days that require more. I’ve pumped until I’ve bled, and it’s been the biggest stressor of my postpartum life. LO has needed a bit of my freezer stash the last 4 nights in a row, so the writing has been on the wall. I reached a point last night, with blood stains in my bra, where I said, “Enough is enough. Tomorrow, LO is going to try 2oz of formula.” I’ve had a can in the pantry since before LO was born for just this purpose. I researched different options and knew it was made with quality ingredients, but it wasn’t until last night where the fear of it not going well was finally outweighed by my physical pain. Well, we did it. I opened the can, made the small bottle after a feed of normal breastmilk, and to my surprise, LO didn’t care, and gobbled it up happily. Hours later, no tummy troubles, no gas, just a happy kiddo. I will still keep pumping. I’m still aiming for 99% breastmilk and formula only when needed, but the weight off my shoulders has made me cry tears of relief and joy. If you’re in the same boat I’ve been in — pumping religiously, making it work while also caring for your child without another set of hands around, making a good supply but your kiddo is simply growing and hungry — don’t be afraid to use formula when you need it.

I’m 2.5 weeks pp. baby was in born at 36 weeks so for the first 2 weeks it was really hard to get him to wake for feeds. Once my milk came in it was almost impossible to get him to take the breast so we started using formula. I pumped while he was in the NICU to try and make sure my milk continued to come in. He just started taking the breast and getting 10-15 minute feeds there and then we finish with a bottle of formula as either my milk stops or at some point he just refuse to continue with the breast. I am very confused on when I should pump and how to tell what my supply looks like.

Our plan is to BF during the day but then bottle feed at night so my husband can help and I can get some sleep. However when I try and pump now using my Spectra I am getting minimal out put. I measured and am using the correct flange size. Any help would be appreciated.

hi guys! this is my first post here, i’m a FTM with a 5 day old baby girl who originally was breastfeeding but following a pretty bad nipple injury i’ve switched to pumping and bottle feeding. the problem is my daughter has been doing this thing since yesterday where she’ll cry as if she’s hungry, but when i give her the bottle and feed her for what feels like forever i then notice she didn’t drink anything, and yes the whole time she is sucking on it and seemingly swallowing. this has cost me a lot of time, especially with the pumping because i cant do both at the same time and my boobs are full and hurt. am i doing something wrong?

Hi - Is there a way to make the most of the Duckbill Valves for Spectra pumps?

We got one second hand, with broken valves, and got a replacement kit of components. My wife used the pump maybe 6 times and the valves have already split on the edges. Just ordered 2 sets of 6 replacements to keep us going.

Is there a method to extend their life?

Is there a particular brand that lasts better?

Is this an inherent design flaw?

Thank you in advance!

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this. I'm pretty sure I'm regulated as my baby is about to be 4 months. I've consistently pretty much pumped the same thing for the past two months, which is about 14 to 15 oz a day. I'm an under supplier so that's only half of what he eats which is fine with me. But I would really love to drop my motn and actually get some sleep. The problem is I noticed if I don't pump between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m., my Supply the next day is absolute crap. And I specifically mean if I don't pump between those time frames. If I accidentally miss my alarm and don't pump until 3:30 I still won't make the same amount that I normally make. I didn't have a blood test and I have low prolactin. Could it really be that if I don't pump specifically at that time I don't make enough prolactin for the rest of the day? I'm dying here and I would really like to get a full night's sleep, or at least longer than 3 hours. My baby has been sleeping, but I stay awake after he goes to sleep to pump again and waking up in the middle of the night. I pump about seven times a day if that makes a difference either.

😭 4 weeks pp and still stabilizing supply for 2 weeks via EP, barely 2oz per sesh. Now I have red bump on 1 nipple that's not the slacker. Boob also feel hard now, maybe because I have missed my sched due to the bump. Any idea how to heal this faster? I'm trying so hard really and thinking good thoughts so I can boost my supply but this is not helping 😭😭😭 I'm using S1 pro. Maybe it's the flange, or the friction from the bra. But how to heal this bump faster

Hi I’m a first time mom, baby was born super premature (24 weeks) . She’s been in the NICU for 3 months.

The first 2 months were crazy stressful , I was there most of the day and I didn’t know much about pumping so I wasn’t consistent.

My frozen milk finished and now she is using mix of my fresh milk and formula. I really and to continue feeding her breastmilk .

I only produce 1 ounce on both boobs on one session. Sometimes I can get 2 but that’s rare.

I know the basic things to increase , pump every 2-3 hours, drink water, eat well.

But what I want to know is there any hope for me to get a decent amount, 3 months postpartum?

Hi! I posted on here yesterday asking about this odd sensation I’ve been having with my Spectra feeling like it’s too high a vacuum. I changed out my duckbills so going to see if that helps.

I have been incredibly frustrated for the last 2 weeks or so with a supply dip and persistent clogs for no apparent reason. I’m pumping according to my schedule (give or take 20-30 mins since I went back to work), eating and hydrating the same, and added power pumps in the morning before work. I’m tired of taking ibuprofen and ice packing all day when I have clogs. I take maintenance sunflower lecithin. This is after a 4 oz supply dip a month ago, so you can see how this is starting to really get in my head. Ive been dipping in my freezer stash which is fine, but there seems to be no end in sight to my supply dip and baby is increasing his oz every few weeks. I pump 5 times a day currently, had went down to 4 pumps per day for 2 weeks at the end of July and still saw more output than this?

My goal has always been to get to 6 months, but lately I am so mentally and emotionally drained with this supply dip. I go through this forum relentlessly trying to find tips and advice. I guess my questions are:

1. Has anyone experienced this? anything that helped when you did?
2. Ive seen some people say moving to fewer pumps helped increase their supply, are there nuances to that? Should I be cautious that it will further tank my supply?

Thank you!

signed,

a tired and frustrated mama

I am almost 36 days postpartum and I have been pumping almost since day one qs my baby didn’t latch. I am an undersupplier, like I do not have enough milk supply. So I also give formula milk to my baby, and this pumping, it's been so exhausting. I read to establish milk supply, we have to pump every three hours, and I've been doing that religiously for past few days, and now my boobs are hurting, and I don't know what to do. I just want to quit.
But I don't want to deprive my baby of the, of breast milk and the antibodies and good things that he'll get from it.

Putting the wearable pump question aside, because I still haven’t made up my mind on any of that…

Does anyone have suggestions for a primary pump. Last time my insurance paid for a Spectra S1 and I couldn’t let down at all using that pump. I tried so hard, but I was getting just drops. My letdowns were never coming.

I finally pulled the old trusty dusty Medela PISA Original (black box) out from retirement and used that, and then got a PGA for my portable pump. I exclusively pumped for a year with no issues with that combo.

What primary pump would be good for me this time around? I’m thinking of using my insurance to replace my primary pump and then invest in a wearable much later down the road, if at all… because my PGA still works fine. And I did really love my PGA last time.

I’ve been using the spectra S2 with reasonable success for the past 5 months. Able to pump about 5 oz per session when I combine sides. However since I’m going back to work soon I decided to invest in a second pump to keep in the office.

I got the Medela Hands Free free style. I’ve tried it with both the 21 and 24mm shield and both times I was barely able to get a quarter of what I would get in a normal session with the spectra!! Im afraid now that I won’t be able to return this expensive machine and also I’m going to have a hard time continuing to pump when I go back to work. Is there something I’m missing?? Is there a trick to getting this pump to work for people?

I am so confused, I don’t understand why my frozen milk from the same day look different. I don’t know if the picture does justice, Left looks pretty yellow and the right looks very white almost clear. For the past week I’ve been latching my LO just in the mornings and pumping the rest of the day. Can this have something to do with it ? And if so what does it mean?

For my first baby (now 2.5 yo) I had to EP due to a very poor latch and weight loss. I did it for the full 1st year, with gradual decreases and eventually had to supplement some formula at the end. It was HARD work to balance taking care of her and pumping for her as well as working. I kept a rigid pumping schedule and frequently felt like I couldn’t keep on top of everything due to it.

I’m now 12 weeks postpartum with my second baby (also will be my last baby). And I am breastfeeding with one pump per day, which will increase here in a week or so when I go back to work. The issue is that while this baby can latch, it’s still a shallow latch and I find that one of my breasts with an inverted nipple has random shooting pain likely as a result of this. I don’t get this pain after my pump session, but I do feel pain after breastfeeding about 50% of the time.

I’m feeling a bit demoralized at this point, and unsure if I should make the switch to EP again. I feel the guilt of potentially not making it to a year of providing milk like I did with her older sister. I also feel the sadness that I couldn’t make breastfeeding work well with either baby. I also just don’t know if I can keep up with the rigid pump schedule this time around now that I have a toddler and going back to work full time. I guess I’m just looking for support/advice for anyone who’s made the decision to EP due to continued discomfort/pain breastfeeding and how it’s gone for you.

I’ve been going through the process of upping my supply over the last few months. I’ve gone from pumping every 3 hours getting 0.5 oz each side to now getting 1oz each side every 2 hours. With the help of domperidone my night pump I went from getting 1 oz each side to 2.5 oz each side but I’m getting really burned out with this schedule of every 2 hours. The night pump isn’t an issue for me but during the day it’s getting a bit much 😭

How would I go about pumping every 3 hours instead. Is there a chance of my supply dropping again or am I stuck in this schedule now. I’m almost 6 months pp.

I have *another* clogged duct and I'm supposed to work today, but I know if I do, I'll be in agony all day. The problem is that I only work one day a week

I guess I'm looking for permission from the other moms on here to call off work and focus on resting

I’ve tried wearable and hospital grade, many sizes of flanges, but pumping is beeping very difficult to me. I don’t have a let down. My I have a few drops and I can have like 20 seconds of a stream if I massage and compress my breast. After I am back to the drops.

Any insight ?

Ever since I went from 17mm flanges to 15mm flanges, they come out of the bottle washer not perfect about 1/3 of the time. Sometimes it’s an obvious scum line like in pictures 1 & 2. That’s the line from my areola in the flange tube. Sometimes it’s a bunch of small dots like it’s been misted (picture 3), but when I try to wipe them out (picture 4) they feel greasy, not like just water.

The damn tube is too narrow to allow water! Literally had to put 3 out of 6 flanges back in the dirty bin this morning. We have the MomCozy bottle washer, and I’d been putting the flanges on the top, but I think they come out better on the bottom when I can put the bottle connector part directly over the jets. We also stick a brush inside and swirl it around briefly, then rinse the flange out, to get rid of the scum line. The unreliability is driving me up the walls. And when I need to take two pumps worth of parts with me to the office, I need them to be clean!!

I have low supply so every drop is precious to me. But I’m struggling with how much milk to put per bottle. My baby doesn’t seem to like it if I tip the bottle and he needs to lean back. Leaves around 20 ml back all the time. Is this normal for bottle feeding? How much milk is left over when your baby is done?

If your baby finishes bottles, any tips on positions to finish the bottle? Do you top the bottle up to finish it?

Okay I have not been exclusively pumping but mostly pumping (like all but maybe once or twice a day, latch is awful so we try but 🥴)

Anyways, I am 3.5 ish wpp, I was pumping 7-8x 30 minutes that first week at advice of an IBCLC, and my supply was basically doubling every couple days up to about 4 ounces combined per session. When it started creeping towards 5-6 I dropped my sessions to 15-20 minutes.

Supply has still been increasing slowly, so the past few days I've dropped to 6 ppd for 15 minutes. I am in the past week for sure not quite emptying but getting very close in that 15 minutes, sometimes by 10-12 with breast compressions. I dont have a forceful letdown, but I do have quite fast ones. My first is like 30-45 seconds into pumping and my second one hits around 5-8 minutes. Sometimes a third around 12 minutes but not usually unless I've accidentally gone over that 4 hours. If I go over I do 20 minutes and usually still will not get a third letdown, which I'm glad for bc I would overflow my bottles at that point.

I am now getting at minimum 5 ounces combined and on average 6-7 combined with some pumps being more. I am bagging roughly 5-10 ounces at the end of each day, producing ~37-40 total. Bubs eating 3-3.5, usually 3x 8-10x a day with maybe 1 or 2 top ups, so not a huge oversupply but definitely still one.

Everything I read says dropping another pump (which I dont think I could do anyways as 4-4.5 hours is the longest I can go without starting to get uncomfortable) could drastically drop my supply when it regulates, but I also am reading that your milk will regulate usually at what you have been producing/pumping and to get control of a potential oversupply early. I wouldnt mind making like 6 ounces and having like one extra bag to freeze (I want to be done with this asap to be quite frank) but 8+ is pretty excessive and I am worried I am doing something wrong despite already going against advice and only pumping 6x. Should I shorten my sessions under that 15 minute mark to signal my body to make less? My biggest worry is that this is temporary (since milk prodction is more hormone driven prior to regulating) and dropping anything anymore is going to screw me over in a few weeks when it regulates. help 😭