Breastfeeding - away for 3 days

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I need to go back to work for 3 days when DS2 is 5 months. I then have over a month off again before going back part time, by which time soilds and a morning and evening breastfeed will hopefully work well.

How do I maintain supply over those 3 days?? Really worried as my day is 7:00-5pm in reality

Your milk supply shouldnt completely go away after 3 days but it may reduce. However it may be really painful for you depending on how often and for how long your baby feeds.

The best way to keep it the same is to express for those 3 days while you are at work so that your body thinks the supply is the same (so no probs with reduced supply after 3 days) and by law your employer has to give you the facilities (ie a private room and time without being penalised) to do this. Although we all know that once we go to work we get busy and work takes over !!

Hope this helps.

I am fine with pumping at work but its never as much as baby gets off. Will my supply be less even after pumping?? Will I need to build it back up again......bloody work!

I used to have that problem ! my baby could be latched on for an hour but if I tried to express it would be like 3oz or something !!

If it was me I would express at work and then after the 3 days are over offer baby feeds more frequently for the first couple of days to make sure it goes back to normal.

Your bodies pretty clever with this stuff. I know someone who went back to work for 2 mornings a week and after a few weeks every Tuesday and Wednesday morning her body basically didnt expect to feed her baby, so no leakage, no pain nothing but on the other days it was back to normal ! Obviously everyone is different but I thought that was pretty amazing !