Stopping Breastfeeding For 3 Days ~ How Much To Pump To Keep Supply Up?

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Hiya,
Im not sure how much & how often I need to pump to keep my supply up. Its been 24 hours now since I BFed, and having my first pump, but hardy anything is coming out. My boobs are rock hard and quite balloon like ~ is it too late? I gave one nipples a tweak, and got a squirt so there's milk there... and im sure I saw it come out while pumping, but one is nearly empty and the other has only about 1oz in it...

Do I aim for a certain oz, or go a certain length of time... & how often?

Many Thanks xxx xxx

I was pumping and MNing... Its practically illuminous! DH is off phoning NCT now for me I wasnt green when I pumped when DS was smaller...

Feeling... okish I guess today. My thread's gone up the creek though.

Green milk is not that uncommon - it doesn't matter. Orange happens too! It can sometimes be associated with something as everyday as vitamin supplements.

I don't take vitamin supplements ~ im worried its the diazepam... shall I pump until its normal again, even if its more than 3 days?

I am surprised it's necessary to suspend bf for this long - diazepam has a long half life (means it hangs around in the system) but not that long.....and while it's not the greatest thing to get into the milk I do wonder if it's as bad as a 3-day suspension would indicate, given that we know formula has risks, and that only a minority of mums would feel able to express for that long

it was an overdose...29 of them ...

Green milk is normal - it's just a variation It means nothing. Even if it is the diazepam, it doesn't necessarily reflect the active ingredient of it.

im doing OK with the expressing, im not worried about keeping it up... ive already done 1 and a half days...

re your thread... Ignore FariyFly... she did something similar to essbee recently. I think she's having a hard time at the moment.

Green looking milk is definitely normal. I also agree that 3 days expressing seems excessive - it is highly unlikely that you absorbed all 29 tablets considering how you are feeling. How you feel just now is a good indicator of how much got into your system.

is she? Im not sure... I gave the benefit of the doubt... MSNed her, but then someone said I was flippant, and I got stroppy Manybe ill email her ~ I feel bad now.

well - ill keep it up 3 days to be on the safe side (and DS slept all night last night ) so Ill have a little break aswell 6pm tomorrow will be a breastfeed ~ thats not too long to keep pumping.

I think she's just having/had a hard time in general rather than anythign specific. Arsey ex etc. @ sleeping baby though. Grrrr. Take care of yourself.

he went from max of 3 hours, once 5 hours and once 6 hour to 12 last night!

of course I was up on MN and MSN all of it lol

Rung BFN -they said it will go out of system quickly, and I am OK to breastfeed now, and green is OK. DS seems to love formula though Ill have a good long (last) sleep then back to the 2 hourly slog