DS is nearly six months and exclusively breast fed. I haven't ever really bothered with expressing, other than the odd bit of hand expressing which doesn't produce much, mainly because I haven't needed to be away from him and I didn't want to mess things up when feeding was going so well.
However we're getting to the point where I would like to be able to go out for a bit and let DH look after DS knowing there was a decent bit of milk stored for them to use. I'm hiring a breast pump for a week to try to do this but have no idea how to go about expressing milk to freeze without it affecting what DS would normally drink.
Should I pump regularly, irregularly, for a long time, a short time...? How much milk should I aim to get? I am absolutely clueless. Help?!
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.
Infant feeding
How do I express without affecting supply?
4 replies
MadGhostlyGnome · 28/10/2015 11:10
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.