To stop expressing at work?

[TinyMystery]

DS is 10 months. I work three days per week and have been for a couple of months. I’ve been expressing at some point midway through the day since I went back in order to provide a bottle for DS for the next time I’m at work. He sometimes has formula if I haven’t had a chance to express or he wants more than I’ve expressed. He eats loads and drinks plenty of water too. He’s down to (usually) three milk feeds (first thing, some point in the day, and bedtime) when I’m home. I just can’t be arsed anymore! It’s not just the part where I have to go and shut myself away for 20 minutes, it’s the washing and fiddling about with bits of pump! I’m so over it. I’m assuming at this stage it will make no real difference to my supply and he’ll be cutting out the mid day feed soon anyway? Why do I feel so guilty!!?

I went back to work FT at 10 months and didn't express, my DD just had formula when I wasn't there. I carried on breastfeeding every morning and nights and a bit more at the weekend until she was 15 months. If you want to stop expressing it won't mess up your supply and you can carry on feeding when you are with him.

Don't feel guilty, it's a mugs game. In a year's time you won't even remember.

I went back to work when DS was 10m. He was a bottle refuser so everything I expressed to take to nursery got tipped down the drain. He was perfectly happy to abstain until we were home in the evening.

With DS I went back at 6 months and expressed. It was a struggle (although work were supportive), I felt guilty and didn't get enough milk. Gave up. I breastfed him afterwork, at night (several times a night) and at the weekends for a few months.

With DD I went back to work at 5 months and put her on to formula. Planned it that way. Only guilt was for the NHS "fully breastfed until 6 months" data. She was a sleeper and didn't feed through the night so my supply did dry up quite quickly.

I went back to work when my first was 6 months. She was a bottle refuser. I expressed at first for comfort mostly but she quickly became used to just stocking up when I was there!

I still feed my 20 month old and I’m at work 3 days a week and I literally haven’t expressed a drop at work since she was 13 months old.

It’s more about your comfort level and to be honest rather than your supply and if you feel fine, then don’t worry.

I travel for work and I do still occasionally express whilst I’m away, again for comfort rather than supply

Expressing is a right bloody faff so no YANBU

Not unreasonable at all. (If you actually don't prefer to stop, the thing that helped me was the medela quick clean wipes so I didn't have to actually wash the parts at a sink. Made it go from seeming impossible to doable.) But yeah at 10 months I feel like you don't need to be doing this if you don't want to!