DS is EBF on demand, and is now 3 months old. I am starting to express so I can (hopefully) give him the occasional bottle of EBM.
I don't understand how milk production works, wrt timing when I express. Can someone help?
To explain: This is what happened last night with DS's feeding.
Right side
6.30pm - 7 mins
7.00pm - 10mins (offered same side because first feed was so short, he fell asleep so didn't offer left)
Left side
8.15pm - 6 mins
11.45pm - 11 mins ( fell asleep so didn't offer right)
He slept through. I woke up with left breast feeling OK, but right breast engorged. I expressed enough from the right side to reduce engorgement and make it easier for him to latch on, then and I fed him at 6.45am for 7 mins (right side) and he fell back to sleep.
I then fully expressed from my left side (right side felt like it still had milk in it). I didn't get very much out of my left breast at all, and I usually don't have problems expressing. When DS woke again I fed him for 10mins, again from the right side, at 9.15am.
He still feeds every 2hours or so through the day.
I am assuming that since he fed from right side, and i expressed from left at the same time, the next feed would be from the left side (because pumping isn't as as efficient as feeding?)
What I can't figure out, is if my left breast did not feel like it had much milk, and I couldn't express much after it had about 6hours rest overnight, how will it be ready to give him his normal feed within 2 hours?
How much time does it take for boobs to be ready to feed again after they've been completely emptied? I know it is demand led, but pumping has to slot in somewhere among that.
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chocciechip · 01/02/2015 10:38
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