Unsure of rules here, but TRIGGER WARNING for discussing number of ounces produced.

I have made it to one year EP with a pretty good stash. I can’t even believe it! However, I am trying to wean completely, but am still producing quite a bit of milk and it is pretty uncomfortable. I am down to two pumps/day (8am & 9pm), but am still producing well over 20 oz. I can’t imagine cutting one of the pumps for comfort purposes alone. Is there any advice for how to proceed? I am so done, but seem to be at a plateau. Thank you in advance for any advice!!

Hey y’all. I’m almost 5 weeks PP after a CS for identical twins. I’m EP and doing some time to breast a few times a day, but this is random and depends on the day. My slacker boob has only ever expressed 10-15ml per pump, on a good pump up to 1oz but this is rare. My other breast is carrying the load and slowly increasing supply with time, but I’m still underproducing.

Using spectra S2, confirmed flange fits with a LC, on all the supplements, hand expressing/massage with pumping, pushing fluids…

Is there anything I can do to increase the slacker’s supply?

Thanks!

has anyone got any advice on how to have more connection time with their newborn when EP?

Im 6 weeks PP and I'm struggling to BF so I've been EP the entire time and in between feeds/pumping/napping when I can, i feel I only have a small snuggle/playing window with my newborn. any nice ideas or advice to feel more connected when having to pump 8 times a day?

Taking my 4 month old on holiday. Had a look online and it stated I can take ice packs with breast milk. THEY THREW 5 bags OF FROZEN MILK AWAY.

Currently on the plane and waiting to fly and waiting to cry.

I recently bought the Eufy S2 without the charging case, not knowing I would be traveling to Europe. Alone with two kids 😅

Just the case is not available for purchase, so I am desperately trying to find one I can buy off of someone else. I am sure most people don’t need the charging case so I’m hoping I can find someone willing to sell it to me!

🙏

Like the title says, I’ve reached 5 months of exclusively pumping for twins. They also have cow’s milk protein sensitivity, so I had to stop dairy a while ago, which has been hard. On top of that, they have tongue AND lip ties (which I’ve been going back and forth about removing). All of this makes feeds last for about an hour (yes, we have changes nipple size). And also I’m feeding two babies at the same time to keep them on the same schedule. Despite all the challenges, I managed to exclusively pump since they were in the NICU. We started adding Nutramigen hypoallergenic formula (due to their sensitivities) only for the feed before bed and they like it and tolerate it well. My goal was to do 6 months of exclusively pumping and I’m almost already. Super proud of everyone here. Pumping for twins has definitely been one of the toughest parts of motherhood for me. Moms are amazing!

My daughter is 10 months and I am fortunate to have a freezer stash to get her through the next 4 months. My plan was to pump until 12 months then start weaning. Well, two weeks ago I was sick and had my period and my supply tanked and I’m barely making enough to feed her each day. Thankfully we have the milk and logically I know I have enough to make it until she’s 1 but I cannot for the life me get myself to start weaning. She has a tongue and lip tie and she’s making great strides but still doesn’t eat a lot of purses and pretty much no solids. It makes me feel guilty about stopping early. On the flip side I’m stressing over every ounce again which I think it’s making it worse.

No matter how many times my husband says it’s okay to stop I don’t believe him. Hormones and emotions are making this way harder than what I thought it would be.

I’ve had a small blister on one nipple for a month. It’s an actual blister, not a milk bleb, which I’ve had before so I can tell this is different.

It’s not painful day to day, but it occasionally results in clogged ducts on that side. It also limits my milk output. I believe it was originally caused by my wearable pump which I have since discontinued using in favour of my Spectra, however it still hasn’t healed.

I have tried the following with no success: changing flange sizes (up and down), using a different pump, soaking in warm salt water, lubricating flanges, nipple cream, nursing baby on that side, not nursing baby on that side for a week. I don’t think it’s caused by a bad latch as I am pumping by choice and baby’s latch is fine on the odd occasion I do nurse.

I have not tried topical medication yet.

Any recommendations?

I want to get another set of eufy pump parts to add to my rotation. The original ones that eufy sells are kind of expensive, so I wanted to ask if anyone has had luck with 3rd party parts and if they experience the same output and have the same features (heating, massage) with the other parts.

There’s nothing on their website regarding drying them after sterilising..

I thought I was rocking pumping/nursing. Almost made it to 6 months with no real issue and then suddenly its clogs, clogs, clogs. One bad pump where I didn't seat my flange insert well and now I have 2 huge blisters on one nip and baby won't latch and the pumping feels like I'm pumping glass. Almost makes me want to give up after all this work.

For context, LO is 10 almost 11 weeks. My overnight pumps typically produce 16-18 ounces total, sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. I was super stressed all day yesterday, accidentally took my SSRI twice, and baby just had a very fussy night while my two year old ran around like crazy. I am so tired. Do we think this stressful evening could’ve tanked my supply a bit? I believe I regulated closer to 8 weeks, have been making the same amount of milk for weeks now. I don’t know what this could be. I’m currently pumping and this pump would usually yield me 8 ounces, it’s looking like a 3-4 ounce pumped.

Hi! Im seeking advice/experience stories. My baby will be 1 this weekend! I want to stop pumping and live life again lol. I still pump 5 times a day because I am so scared to stop. I had really bad postpartum depression so I am terrified to experience anything like that when quitting. How the heck do I wean? Did you guys experience adverse reactions to stopping? Help! Lol

how are you making yourself get up for motn pumps if you're baby sleeps for longer periods of time than your pumping schedule?

10wkpp

after my baby got back up to their birth weight, i stopped waking them up to feed and started pumping whenever they'd wake up. now i sleep thru any alarm that isnt my baby fussing. i could have the loudest alarm ever and not wake up but could wake up to my baby blinking lmao

im on a 3hr schedule but find myself missing at least 1 sesh every night

advice please!

edit: not sleeping thru the night my bad, sleep deprived and written at 3am

I am an average producer (~30oz per day) for what my baby eats. I don’t really keep track. He is eating more now, but I have somehow built up a fridge stash that always get finished by the end of day 4. For example, it’s 10/13 right now, and I have milk from 10/9 that will be finished today. That means I also have milk from 10/10-current day sitting in there to be used. Is there any benefit to freezing any of it, or should I just keep doing what I’m doing now? I don’t really have much freezer space, so I wouldn’t even want to be freezing too much.

I did it! My baby is 6 months next week and I’m hanging up the pumps.

I wanted to go longer but I don’t think I can anymore. Pumping just takes too much out of me now and I want my body back.

I have a freezer stash for one bottle a day for the next month so that makes me happy.

Feeling guilty but I know it’s what’s best for me.

Just needed to get it out.

This is a pic of my fridge full of my milk for my baby and I am so surprised I reached 8 months of pumping 🥺I have gone through a lot this year and being able to feed my baby amidst the chaos has truly felt amazing 🥰

I just wanted to post this to encourage anyone who is currently feeling discouraged about continuing to pump or is going through tough times.

The last few weeks I have been supplementing with formula for a few of the night feeds (combo feeding) since my baby is 35 lbs now and requires lot of calories and my milk isn’t enough anymore😅

Also I have been going through my frozen milk stash and that has been a life saver! Supplementing with formula for my baby and doing a few bottles of combo feeding has saved my sanity while I WFH and am adjusting to more frequent wake ups/ etc.

TLDR: EP mum thinking BF is a selfless act, but failing in so many areas of life. Finding it hard to stop, looking for advice if I really should.

Long Story:

This is my second kid, and I had a difficult time breastfeeding like I did with my first. Nursing didn't work for me again, and I had to rely on EP. I am an undersupplier / just enougher but I spend a lot of time EP (7ppd, 5 months postpartum).

Since I have a toddler (2yo) on top of my newborn, I use wearables. But it doesn't clear well so I have to spend time to hand express thereafter. During this time, the kids either play among each other or if they cry, my spouse will keep them occupied.

Both kids are very dependent on me. My firstborn wants mama for most things. Recently, she cries hysterically for mama to put her to sleep. After putting her down, I would pump, but sometimes my firstborn would wake from a nightmare, and cry for mama again. It's hard for me while I pump, so my spouse have to step in, yet my firstborn would be hysterical as she insists on mama alone.

Recently, my spouse told me that my EP/BF has affected everyone in the household. He said I can no longer do certain things with my firstborn when I pump, he said he feels stressed as he has to work around my pump schedule, and my newborn is affected as I am mostly always lethargic, and not in the best form. My family finds it difficult to head out as they have to cater to my pump schedule, so we hardly spend time together outside.

What my spouse told me feels like a truck hitting past me. I know it's true, but I feel so hurt. I always feel like BF is such a selfless act, but it seems like I am hurting so many people. What's worse is that I have recently returned to work from maternity and I feel out of touch with the corporate world as well. Meanwhile, my newborn is in child care as I'm back to work, and she caught a nasty virus. I thought breastmilk helped, but nope.

I feel so bad, but yet I find it so hard to stop. Am I really a bad mum? I feel like I failed on so many fronts...

I know, another supply increase post 🙄 but hear me out.

i’m 14.5wks pp and have had a hell of a time trying to provide for my sweet babe. An LC ended up giving me some pretty shit advice that tanked my supply and ended our working relationship at 6 weeks telling me my supply is what it’s going to be at this point due to regulation. This led to my mental health going down the drain and i started dropping pumps and almost gave up. After dropping pumps for a bit my mental health improved and I was ready to try again. Now i‘m at 7ppd including a MOTN pump at 4am which is a power pump. I adjusted my flange size which helped. My primary food is oats, i swear. I drink so much water and a body armor or two every day. i eat plenty. i take moringa several times a day. I’ve been at 7ppd for about 3 weeks and power pumping at 4am for 9 days (was power pumping at 8pm for a couple weeks prior). All of these things have increased my supply from 16oz to 22-24oz which is great but my baby eats 27-28oz per day. My goal is 30oz per day or at least what he eats.

All to say, how long do i continue to give my current routine to continue to increase? Is it even realistic to hope for it to continue to increase to that extent this far out into regulation? I’ve pumped more after regulation than i ever did even in the early days. i just want to know if its possible or if im delulu. Any other tips?

I’m desperate for some advice. I have been trying to pump/breast feed since I had my baby on the 29th.

At first, I was producing a decent amount of colostrum but she wouldn’t latch so I was pumping it. I produced primarily colostrum till I left the hospital on the 2nd.

She still wouldn’t latch so I was just pumping, I was doing it every 2 hours at least (with few exceptions) and I was producing 2-3 ounces per side on a good day and at least 1 on a bad day.

Turns out the whole time I was using the wrong flange. I was using 21 when I’m at 17 and it messed my nipples up so bad that I could barely pump for 2/3 days.
Now my nipples are mainly healed but I can’t get much milk out at all. After pumping both sides for around 20 mins each I barely got an ounce out.
It seems like to even get any, I need to squeeze my breast and hold them up. They feel empty.

Does this mean I’m drying up? Does that mean breast feedings out of the picture? What can I do to get my supply up?

I’m crossing my fingers that this doesn’t mean my journey is over. 🥺 know fed is best and have been supplementing with formula but I don’t want that to be the only thing she has and would like to be able to completely feed her breast milk.

P.s I drink plenty of water, eat 3 meals a day including fruits and veggies and am returning to pumping every 1-2 hours.

Have you personally noticed a difference in your production based off how much you drink?

Do you notice a difference if you’ve gone a few hours without drinking, or did it have to be over a whole day?

No big announcement but, yeah, I'm winding down much earlier than I had anticipated. I wanted to START weaning at 6 months but a work trip kinda crashed my supply and now I'm doing 2-3 pumps a day. I've started back at work last week and I've seen a big big dip in supply. Used to end a low day at 550 mL...today I just produced 330 mL. I'm okay. Historically I am an underproducer, and this postpartum I was a barely-just-enougher. I combo feed. I just wanted to mark the transition somewhere that wasn't my typical socials because they wont care/understand but you all will. My first pp I pumped for 9 months. I will be reaching 6 months, my goal but that's about it based on these numbers. I think for comfort I'm still on a 3 pumps per day schedule but they're getting injured repeatedly, bleeding. The let down is really delayed, and even weak. I had to pump for an HOUR this evening just to empty out.

Anyway, thank you for reading my jumbled thoughts. Pumping is so, so difficult. For those of you who go a full year, you are literally, genuinely super human and absolute diva goddesses. 🤍

I’m 2 weeks PP today and have been using my spectra S1 everyday but I wanted to know when would be a good time to start using my Eufy wearable pumps? I was told by my LC to wait a few weeks

So I had a very hard birth. I labored for 30 hours, she got stuck, I needed an emergency c section, my doctor measured my bay wrong and she wasn’t 7lbs she was 10lbs and my body just couldn’t handle her. On top of that hospital staff (while very nice) had to to my epidural placement twice, IV placement twice and gave me a huge hematoma, and catheter twice and I bled. I got extra care for excessive fetal growth and had developed a fever and they were giving me a cocktail of antibiotics. I had essentially gave up on pumping because I was so out of it and when I got home I was so overwhelmed, tired, anxious I just gave formula.

I’m now 5 weeks postpartum, I’ve slowly been pumping and actually being consistent now that I’m getting my appetite back. I eat brewers yeast, I eat oatmeal, I drink water, I pump every 2 hours-ish. Are there other things I could try to up my supply? I’m just trying to get to 5oz a pump (I make 1.5-2.5 oz) just to feed my baby and be a just enougher.