How to introduce pumping after exclusively breastfeeding?

[Sunflowers95]

My baby is nearly 4 months and has always been exclusively breastfed. I have never pumped (apart from a couple of times in the first two weeks to improve supply).

I have a few plans coming up which will involve me going out without baby for a couple of hours. How can I introduce pumping/giving her an expressed bottle without messing up my supply so that someone else can feed her while I'm out?

Thanks for any advice!

I pumped after each feed and woke up around 1am to pump. Portion and freeze the milk ready for when you need it. If she hasn't taken a bottle before you might need to practise with her before hand as a lot of babies refuse a bottle if exclusively breastfed. I had to try a few types of bottles/nipples before I found one mine would take.

Hi. I think the more pertinent question here is will your baby drink from a bottle? My 2 DC never did and in the end it just wasn't worth the distress. What I did do when they were a little bigger is mix banana/weetabix with some breastmilk and they'd have that if needed when I was away from them. Alternatively if it's just a few hours you might find baby is fine and waits until you get back.
As for pumping im no expert but if you do it straight after a feed it'll be fine. It's hard being chained to a baby so you have my sympathy!