Expressing - should you do both boobs or just one boob twice?

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I express every night at about 10pm for a bottle for DS the following night. He's a bit unpredictable whether he wakes at 10/11ish or if he sleeps until around 2am. I usually express from the breast that has had the longest break from DS and get 3oz then I wait 10 mins and express the same breast again and get another 1/1.5oz so that's a 4/4.5oz bottle done. My thinking is that I've got the foremilk and the hindmilk from doing it that way but for a higher yield should I express the other breast as well? I'm just worried that DS will wake up for a feed just after I've expressed and I'll have nothing left for him?

Also, if I switch breast will that mess up the formilk/hindmilk thing?

i have answered your other thread.

some of the milk you get 10 mins later is wot your breast has just made in that 10 minute break. please don't stress out about foremilk, hindmilk.

I expressed for dd when i went back to work for over 12 months as she is allergic to cow's milk and egg and probably why she weaned slowly.

i loved watching that milk come 10 mins later. I used to express from both sides at least once a night and if she woke up - and she did sometimes whilst pumping - i just put her straight on. she may have fed a little longer to get what she wanted but I imagined it also boosted my supply if for a short time as your body responds to the extra milk removal by making more milk.