Expressing query

[Vmama]

i took DS out for the day today and as I'm not yet confident enough to BF in public I expressed enough milk for a feed while we were out which went well. My question is as I effectively missed a feed do I need to express again to keep my milk supply up? I went from 12 til 6 between feeds (as he had EBM at 3pm)

also often at night DS falls asleep round 8pm and wakes at 1 or 2 am for a feed which my DH does using EBM meaning I go from 8pm til 4am ish without doing a feed -will this affect my supply?

what should I do if the answer is yes to these? I'm really happy with DH doing a feed and it's working well as the 4-5 hour stretch of sleep i get is keeping me sane and able to cope so would hate to give it up.

The occasional skipping of a normal bf for ebm instead like today won't really affect your supply, you probably found you had just filled up more - which he probably then drank anyway.

Though the more you feed, the more you produce. I imagine you must be expressing in the day anyway to use in the night. During the night, your boobs/supply will just adjust over time anyway.

I found that once my daughter started to sleep through, I was very full and leaking by the morning but over the days/weeks that lessened and it became more comfortable. Your body will know what to do.

thanks chocolatekimmy -when did she start sleeping through?

About 11 weeks (exclusively bf) until 22 weeks then she started waking early hours again, probably hungry. I put up with it until I started weaning at 26 weeks then she started to sleep through again at about 31 weeks by which time she was on 3 meals a day as well as bm.

My first baby slept through from about 11 months, the second from about 6 months and both were fed the same etc.