Advice needed on giving up expressing - when is milk supply established?

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I have been following the GF routines since my baby was three weeks old with some success. My dd is now 8 weeks old and I have decided to stop expressing milk because she has started refusing the bottle anyway and I'm sick of chucking breast milk away in the morning. (Feels like a crime after all that effort)

GF still recommends a 10pm express at this point -something which I just can't be bothered to do any more. My question is this - will I be affecting my supply by cutting out this express? Is there a point at which a milk supply is established and therefore I don't need to worry any more?

If you are exclusively bf your supply will be established enough by now. GF recommends extra expressing because she thinks sometimes babies are not hungry enough early on to stimulate properly - others will disagree with her on this. Your supply will regulate itself to what your baby needs.

If you don't want to chuck away what you have expressed then freeze it and use it for mixing with food when you wean her.

Your supply should be settling down now so you should be ok do stop expressing if you like. I haven't read GF - why does she recommend expressing ?