The expressing clique

[popsycal]

I'm Popsy and I am a pumper

DS2 is 6 months and i am bac at work 4 days a week mon-thurs. I express and lunchtime and get around 5oz.......
He needs 2 7oz feeds during the day but i am hoping to reduce his lunchtime feeds as his solids increase.
BEen back at work properly only one week but am having to express during every feed and every time on my day off to get enough.
my boobs hurt

Who else is in my gang

ddn was keen to drink out of her spout bottle this am when i took her off to nursery! i may have a breakthrough...

Hi Ladies

I am looking for some advice. I am going back to work full time and I am exclusively breastfeeding. My LO will be 19 weeks and will take a bottle of expressed milk and formula. However I am unsure of how often I should be expressing at work as I will be missing his 10am, 1pm and 4pm feeds. I usually feed 6 times a day and he sleeps through. I guess what I want to know is how many times should i be expressing a day, how much should I aim to express? I could also look at dropping a feed as he weighs 17pounds but I dont want him to stop sleeping through? Any advice? Thanks a million

Hi
I thought kellymom had some sort of calculator to help with this? Have a look there....In terms of pumping at work and how many times that's tricky? You need to try to ensure you're as relaxed as possible and as unstressed as you can. So do you have an electric double pump? Will you be somewhere private?? This can impact the amount you can pump...
I hope this helps-and good luck!

Hi there

Thx for the advice. Will look at the calculation :)
Yes have a double pump and a room to express in. Just looking at hands free bustiers to pop my pump in. Any recommendations? Its all a bit scarily close now.

Thx for all the help

I've just changed my name back....I exclusively expressed for dd1 for a year and used an Ameda Lactaline. It was fab - and great customer service when some elements needed replacing. However that was 6 yrs ago and there are a number of other pumps on the market...so it might be worthwhile posting again on a new thread asking for double pump recommendations.

Let me know if I can help with anything else...