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Will be away from 9 month old DS for three nights - worried this will affect my supply

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SpawnChorus · 09/04/2007 23:12

I'm going to a wedding in Amsterdam at the end of May. We're leaving the spawn with the ILs, and am going to start expressing to leave a stash of milk. However, I'm getting increasingly worried about how this might affect my supply. Obviously I'm going to keep pumping while away, but I don't produce as much milk while pumping as when actually feeding him.

Also, I'm kind of worried that DS might forget how to feed from me.

Does anyone have any tips/reassurance?

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hana · 09/04/2007 23:13

I don't think at 9 months your ds will forget
keep expressing while you are away and I'm sure your supply will even itself out when you are back home again

SpawnChorus · 09/04/2007 23:24

hana - thanks I did suspect that I might be worrying unnecessarily about DS 'forgetting'.

When we booked the trip I thought that DS might have started cutting down on feeds by this stage (DD was down to 2 or 3 feeds a day at 9 months...although that might be cos I was pregnant again). There's no sign of him cutting down at all at the moment though. He's still having at least 5 or 6 feeds, incl at least one during the night. I guess I'm going to have to do a lot of pumping while we're away.

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