DD is 24 weeks old and feeds once an hour and always has done. It's exhausting! I've tried breast compressions, letting her wait a little bit after her asking for food before feeding (this does not go down well!)... The only thing that worked was feeding her, then giving her a top up bottle straight afterwards- an extra 50-60ml. That way she'd go just over 2 hours between feeds but I had to pump after every feed to keep my supply up. After a couple of days, we reduced the top up to 30ml as she was feeding longer on the boob, then another couple of days we dropped it and she fed every 2 hours. It was great! That lasted 2 days and on the third day she just went back to hourly feeds.
Anyway, me and hubby decoded that from 6 months, we'd give her a bottle of formula a day to lessen the load on me.
For some reason, I got it stuck into my head that I also needed to fill the freezer with breastmilk so that we also had a supply of milk to give her from there.
Every morning for the past 2 weeks I've fed her from one side and pumped the other and put it into the freezer. DH thinks that I've gone mad and doesn't understand why.
I am just hyperfixated about getting at least 30 bags of milk in there before I can drop a feed.
Have I gone mad?! Is there any point to all of this? I'm literally giving myself extra work by having to wash and sterilise the pump every day and probably for no reason!