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Want to stop expressing at night...

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Naetha · 19/03/2008 20:20

DS is nearly 11 weeks old, and has been almost exclusively fed EBM from about 6 weeks. I've had no trouble expressing, I usually get 8-10oz in 20 minutes on my Ameda Lactaline pump (some kind of dairy cow emoticon is needed here methinks) and usually have about 5-7oz left over every day that I freeze.

However, my freezer is getting full, and I am sick and tired of expressing at 3am. DS is a gem and barely wakes up to feed, so likewise I barely wake up as well and we both go through the feed half asleep. However, I then have to get up and go downstairs to express which takes about half an hour (including preparing and washing up after). I am very tired (literally!) of this, and would like to stop the mid-night express.

Question is, how do I go about it? My boobs are rock hard and painful if I don't express for 6 hours or so, so I have to express in the night for my comfort rather than to feed my DS.

I don't want to cut down my expressing the rest of the time, I'd just like to do my last express at 11pm and then at say 7am.

How do I go about this? Any suggestions? Sorry for rather convoluted post - lack of sleep causing concentration issues!

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moondog · 19/03/2008 20:23

Can you move it to 4o am for a week, then 5:00 am and so on? Less of a shock to your system.

Bloody hell,well done,it's damned hard work doing all that.

Any chance of getting your baby latched onto the breast?

Naetha · 20/03/2008 09:21

Although he will breastfeed, this causes lots of problems for both of us (I have a forceful let-down, he doesn't bother to suck properly so only gets foremilk + lots of air = major wind problems), and for some reason seems to be really bad at it at night.

I will try gradually increasing the gap between my night-time expressing, and hopefully this won't make my boobs too sore!

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