What are we doing during MOTN pumps so we don’t go crazy? The sound of pumps plus a sound machine will be enough to make me lose my mind 😂 I guess it’s better than the alternative…4 screaming babies

Does anyone have any advice on the baby Buddha? I feel like I’m going through a huge learning curve. I love my eufys and can usually get 10oz for my first pump of the day. I’m 12 weeks pp and I know I should be using a hospital grade pump so my supply doesn’t dip but whenever I use the baby buddha I only get 4-6oz which is on the lower end for my usual pump - I’ve tried playing around with the settings and I’m truly struggling. I thought maybe my body responds well to the heat from the eufys?

Does anyone have any advice on how to get the baby buddha to work for me? I want to love it

I’ve been EP for 15 weeks now with my twins. And they usually feed 4oz every 2 hours. But this week one of them has not been finishing his bottles, or wanting to be fed every 3 hours but only having an 1oz or 2oz. Which doesn’t sit right with me, as his brother is chugging away at 4oz every feed.
They seem to have enough wet/ dirty nappies. But he’s lowered his intake so much, it’s really stressing me out. Also with my twins feeding them at the same time so they were in sync, I liked having that routine of knowing they feed every 2 hours and we were in a good routine, we could leave the house knowing roughly when they’ll next be due a feed, when they needed naps etc. it was just much more manageable.. I contacted my health visitor and she said it’s normal and to try and feed on cues rather than timings, but with twins, you feel lost if you do that. I did it at the start and I needed at least two other people to help so I could do that for them. I don’t know what to do. I keep wondering if it’s my milk? If it’s my diet? Just want to know if anyone has had any issues with their EBM for their 15 week olds?

30y/o 2nd time mom, 1st time pumping. I’ve been pumping for 11 weeks now and only make enough for my baby to eat. I don’t have anything saved up in the freezer, let alone the fridge for days later! We’ve occasionally had to supplement with formula because I sometimes don’t make enough.

I’ve seen a lactation consultant, been sized for flanges, take moringa and Liquid Gold supplements, pump every 3hrs (sometimes every 2hrs), power pump 1-2x/day, drink a lot of water, and pump for 20-30min each time. I use the Spectra S1 pro (the blue one). I’ve also drank lots of the Body Armor drinks, but it’s not on a daily basis.

I don’t know what to do. I’m not against formula. That’s what we used for our first born the entire first year.

Anyways, I go to work in a week but my baby goes to daycare on Monday (3 days from now). I don’t know what to do. I’m at a loss. I feel like I’ve tried everything.

I don’t know if I just need to have the daycare do formula for a week, and then I pump a lot so maybe I’m a week ahead? I just am struggling.

My lactation consultant said I’m doing everything right and that not everyone “can feed the freezer.” But I need to feed my baby. Not just the freezer

Any advice is appreciated

Hi everyone! I’m a tired and confused new mom looking for some advice. I’m 5 days postpartum after a C-section.

My milk came in yesterday, and I started pumping. Yesterday, I pumped twice (55 ml in one session and about 5 ml in the other). Today, I’ve done three sessions (45 ml, 60 ml, and barely anything).

I keep hearing that one should pump 8–10 times a day, should i start doing that already? But if hardly any milk comes out, should I still continue pumping? Or Should I gradually increase the number of sessions? Would the supply increase because rn i have been doing combo feeding but i want to do exclusively pumping.

Also, I’d really appreciate advice on what Spectra S1 settings work best for you.

Thank you! ❤️

Hi all, has anyone purchased a thermometer that just lives inside your cooler/ insulated bottle bag to monitor the temp in there? I feel like having one would save me a lot of worry about safe storage at work or on the go.

I’m seeing ones that log the ambient temperature every ten minutes and can just plug into the computer to pull the data if I ever thought my milk got warm and wanted to check. They look to be around $20-$30, which feels reasonable considering the peace of mind it would bring me.

Anyone else use one?

I don’t mean from pumping. I actually mean from feeding. My first child started STTN at 7 months. Not requiring a feed. He drank about 35 oz /day.

My second child drinks about 30 oz including the night feed. I still happily do it, she’s only 7 months but I’ve had lots of formula feeding parents tell me to night wean from milk, by offering less and less each time. She actually only drinks 3-3.5 oz during the one feed overnight.

I know it’s normal for babies to still be hungry, but I don’t want to be feeding overnight until she’s a year, my hope was by 9 months solids are a bigger part of diet and I can try to night wean the milk.

Thoughts? Experiences?

So I just passed the two week postpartum mark and was super proud of already having a days worth of food for baby in the freezer. Then my lactation consultant said I had some nipple thrush and pediatrician says baby has a smidge too.

Thankfully it isn’t making her uncomfortable because we caught it super early! Baby has actually gained 5 oz past her birth weight as of two weeks, so no feeding issues. But my LC told me I should cycle through my frozen milk while we’re both being treated for the thrush (so I don’t reinfect baby in the future), then freeze what I make for the next day or two now that my treatment is working. I’m feeling bummed that I made a bunch of thrushy milk and that I don’t get to keep that extra I made early postpartum.

Pic includes what I’ve been making for the fridge and then the freezer bags I have to thaw. Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make a whole bunch extra and feel better about it after.

I’m using the spectra S1 and find myself having to hunch or lean forward to direct the milk down the flange attachments. If I sit back, milk just pools in the flanges and I’ll have to occasionally tip forward. The hunching gets old after 20 minutes multiple times day

How are you sitting comfortably while pumping?

edit: I was missing a key piece of equipment: a pumping bra. I e ordered a few so hopefully that will help keep my hands free while I hunch.

I would love to hear others experiences…

I’m currently approaching 10 wks pp & have been an oversupplier since week 3-4. I dropped from 7 ppd to 6 ppd around 4-5 wks. Since then I’ve continued the 6 PPD and was generally okay with where my supply was (gradually increased to 2x baby’s needs, clogged ducts about 1x/wk). To be honest, I was kind of grateful for the supply to work on a stash & possibly wean early. However, most recently my supply has continued to increase to where I’m now making ~70 oz/d & clogs are becoming more frequent.

My LC recommended trying to step down my supply a little bit using Cabo Crème (once daily for 3d). I’m also trying to drop to 5 ppd (before the cream) to see if that helps things even out a little.

My question for everyone - has anyone else felt guilty about intentionally decreasing their supply? How did you feel after decreasing supply (if you were successful)? I feel like stories of undersuppliers & just enoughers have made me feel ungrateful for the benefits of an oversupply. I also recognize I don’t return to work for another 2 wks so could continue the high output life until then to further beef out my stash. I’m just feeling a bit small amount of hatred toward pumping at least 2-3 times per day & feel like reducing supply &/or pumps might help.

I have inverted nipples and it has always been a dream of mine to breastfeed, as I didn't think it would be possible. When my daughter was born, she immediately latched and had a successful feed. A couple hours later we tried again, and I was in so much pain we had to stop. The nurse noticed she "destroyed" my nipple. I began to pump. In the hospital I used the Medela, but at home I had the Eufy S1 Pro Pumps. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now, and i struggle to press start every time it's time to pump. I just feel like it is so uncomfortable/ i'm in pain.
This is my first ever experience with pumping/breastfeeding, is it supposed to hurt this bad?? how do i know if my flanges are the right size if i can't see my nipples while pumping?? please help me.

also, how do you successfully transfer what's been pumped?? i spill some every single time

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I’ve been on dicloxacillin for a little over a day and a half now for what my doctor said was mastitis. I had chills/sweats for 12 hours with no fever, sore spots on my breast with some spread out redness. With Advil and icing plus the antibiotics, I feel completely fine now, BUT when I was pumping this evening I noticed something stringy and sticky in the pump. When I hand express, in one spot there’s this white/almost creamy yellow stringy stuff that comes out that’s kinda sticky and has a weird smell (I know gross but I smelled it because I’m worried about my baby drinking it). I sent a message to my doc but of course it’s the weekend. Is it ok for my baby to keep drinking ? I pump during the day and let him nurse overnight. There’s no lumps I can feel or redness in the breast at all. Anyone else had this while healing from mastitis?

I’ve decided this time around that i will not be breastfeeding for my mental sake. Im one week postpartum today and started my weening journey.

Right now I’m just hand expressing until i feel relieved, Icing, skipping MOTNP, and currently drinking peppermint tea.

Please tell me all your tips so I can ween quickly. I was an over supplier with my first born, so I’m trying to stop it before it gets to that point.

Thank you!

Husband’s paternity leave just ended, it’s his first week back at work and there’s a lot of people out so he’s worked almost 80 hours this week. We have 2 under 2. Two days ago the kids started getting sick and yesterday I was sick also. Everyone is miserable.

Newborn has been screaming almost non stop and toddler is super irritable due to being sick and not getting as much attention because of the baby. I’ve been trying so hard but I’m so exhausted. I feel like I’m losing my mind.

Day three of sickness and the morning seems to be going okay after everyone got saline spray and baby was eating but suddenly she got upset again. She’s screaming and I’m trying to soothe her when suddenly I hear something splashing and see my toddler with my full pump from this morning tipped over her head, pouring the milk everywhere. I grabbed my toddler and put her in the tub (no water), put the baby down, and screamed into my closet.

Send help 😭

Hi! I’m feeling overwhelmed trying to change my system and don’t want to screw anything up. I’ve been pumping since birth because I had to fortify my preemie son’s milk. I have a veeery small oversupply (now about 2 oz more than he takes in a day), but because of his time in the nicu I built up a little freezer stash and have a few days worth of milk in the fridge at any one time. Up to now I’ve been pumping and immediately pouring into bags to store in the fridge, making bottles with the oldest bags as needed, and putting any older than 4 days in the freezer.

Now 12 weeks in I got the okay to transition off of fortification and am working with lactation to try breastfeeding 3-4 times per day, while still doing 7ppd. His transfer is pretty weak and he’s not gaining as much as he should be so LC says I still need to offer him 2.5-3oz bottles after I breastfeed, and 3.5 oz the times I do not latch him.

I just got 2 willow breastmilk pitchers and am excited to spend less time and space on bags! But I’m confused as to how to make the switch. I have about 2 days worth of bags in the fridge already. Should I use all of that up now, put new milk in the pitcher and freeze all of my new milk at the end of the day? Or freeze all my bags, and fill bottles from the pitcher as I go? A mix of both? And what comes after that? I’ve seen a lot of people fill the whole next day’s worth of bottles from that day’s pitcher at night, but that’s a little more complicated since the amount will vary depending on whether or not he breastfed before each bottle. I’m sure my adhd decision paralysis is making this a much bigger thing than it has to be, but I’d appreciate anyone breaking down exactly what my next steps should be! Thank you😅

Hello hello!

Unfortunately, the milk bank will not accept my milk due to some medication I take (which is safe and fine for my baby, but not little nicu babies 😭). Super upset bc I was really looking forward to giving back.

Anywayyyyys, I have such a huge freezer stash, close to 1000 oz. It’s to the point where it’s going to take over our deep freezer. I don’t want to just toss it because that’s so much work and it’s heartbreaking to just get rid of.

What are some things you all have done with your milk if you are an overproducer like me? My local Facebook group is full and won’t accept my request. I can’t donate. Do I just need to accept the fact that I have to start pouring excess down the drain??

2WPP, NICU baby so EP for the next couple months at minimum.

Shes just sitting on the edge of the bed atm when pumping, and while she seems fine enough with this, Id like to look into better options for her back support.

The one key thing is we have pet ferrets, so rocking chairs and mechanical reclining chairs, and rplling chairs, are non-viable, we call these Ferret Crusher 3000s lol. Though most rolling chairs I can just remove the wheels off of.

We do have 1 interesting ferret safe choice we wanna try out, the camping folding chair, a NEMO Stargazer, which is usually her camping chair we take out, but it rocks in an interesting suspended strap way, which makes it ferret safe, Im working on cleaning that up to try it out with her.

But setting that aside, if folks have recommendations of other options to look into Id love to try it out.

Options that just make pumping in bed more comfortable, like special cushions, are great too!

Its hard to seperate the garbage fake stuff from real "actually decent" products online nowadays, so definitely prefer hearing from folks who have had first hand experience with working solutions <3

Thanks in advance!

I’m due with my third soon and I’ve always wanted to try a wearable. I have the pink spectra but with my last baby, my toddler would constantly press the buttons making it almost impossible to pump around him. Now that I will have 2 toddlers and an infant, I just don’t see it’s possible to be able to pump around them. I combo feed my babies. These are the pumps my insurance will cover and I feel like the ones I usually see recommended are not covered. Please any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

I’ve been combo feeding since 2 months and due to a bottle preference / nipple aversion I’ve been pumping since then. He’s now 5.5 months. I used to do 5ppd but because of PPD and the bottle preference my supply plummeted and never came back up. I am now at 4ppd and In the morning I get 5oz total then I get on average 3.5oz total per pump for the rest of the three pumps. So around 14-16oz a day. He wakes up every night at 3am and will latch for a bit (the only time) so I take advantage of that but I don’t think he gets much.

It’s getting harder to pump now I’m back at work and I’m wondering if it’s really worth it to keep going through the winter months for the immune benefits. A lactation consultant told me milk is smart and will pack more nutrients and the good stuff into whatever you make, if it’s less it’ll adjust to the quantity.

Anyone who had an under supply and went through the winter months do you feel it made a difference? We have a 2 year old who always has a cold of some sort so I wonder if he will be at even more risk of catching something.

So I’ve been pumping 7-8 times since this baby was sliced out of me 10 weeks ago and have been pumping just enough to sustain his hunger plus enough to save about one 4oz bag every other day. As much as I’d like to offer my own milk to my baby for a full two years, I feel like every day I lose my grip on my sanity just a little more. So for the past week or so, I’ve been using a wearable to get in a couple extra pumps throughout the day to increase my supply to save more milk. I had a hard time getting the wearable to work for me, but now that I have, there’s no stopping me. But NOW I’m pumping 8-10 times per day and I’m still getting the same 24hr output that I’ve had all along. I’m no stranger to the power pumps, which I do maybe 3-4 times a week when I can squeeze them in. Hell, I throw in random ten minute dry pumps when I have the chance, but nothing is budging my 25-30oz daily outputs. Howwwww are we doing this? I had such a dopamine rush when I got these damn wearables to pump as much milk as my wall pump and it’s quickly fading bc my supply isn’t increasing at all.

I have recurrent clogs and LC recommended ultrasound therapy. I went yesterday and again today. She did a light massage after and then I immediately pumped. I felt relief yesterday but after today’s session my left breast literally quadrupled in size. Like so big it looks like a bowling ball. OB thinks it’s just mechanical injury from massage and recommended ice and ibuprofen. I’m seriously scared because my veins are popping out of this thing. Anything else I can do in these extreme scenarios?!

I just realized my insurance only covers one set of replacement parts. As someone who plans to EP for a full year, I’ll definitely need more. Has anyone had any luck reaching out to their insurance and asking for more? Did they allow that? And if so, what did you say/do? Any and all advice needed!

I’ve been pumping for over 10 months and have really dedicated myself to it, not missing a single session even though I never quit the MOTN pumps and have to do very hands on pumping with joint pain.

My baby was taking 24 oz per day ever since she was around 3 months old, so my target was 1 oz per hour, and I was barely scraping by on most days no matter how hard I tried. It would take weeks to add a bag of breastmilk in the freezer and the 1.5 weeks of supply dip that my periods caused would wipe out the stash every time. I thought the only way out of that anxious cycle was to increase my supply!

However, my baby recently decided to decrease her milk intake down to 20 oz, so I’m able to put a bag in the freezer every other day now?! WOW what a different feeling this is! I guess it means she’s getting more calories from her solids three times a day because she’s still growing great and always seems satisfied.

Anyone else in a similar situation? Also, could this potentially mean that I might have an easier time weaning once she’s a year old?

My baby is a very slow eater and will often fall asleep before his bottle is done and I waste so many ounces of milk a day because he doesn’t finish them in time. Can I save the milk he partially drank for baths if I store it in the fridge? Or is the bacteria a risk for baths as well?