Weaning from breast pumping

[arianwe]

Sorry, didn't know where to put this!

Have been exclusively breast pumping for 2/3 weeks and now want to stop as I don't have the time with 2 children under 3 in the house!

I have been pumping 4 x a day for 15 minutes each time. Read online to drop one feed and let body adjust for few days before dropping another etc. Tried to drop to 3 feeds yesterday and by 2am this morning one of my tits felt like it had been hit by a bus. It was sooo painful, so I've gone back to pumping exactly as I had been.

Maybe it would be better to just reduce the amount of time I am pumping for at each session instead? What did you all do so that your boobs weren't in horrific pain? Thanks

Also, is it meant to hurt when weaning?? Obviously it shouldn't hurt as much as this it is it meant to hurt at all?

OP, are you feeding a 2-3 week old baby, or were you breastfeeding directly and switched to exclusive pumping 2-3 weeks ago? I'd really recommend the website kellymom for advice, I never got on with pumping and I'm still feeding but it you're talking about a newborn then your own supply won't have settled yet, so I'd say advice would be different but I would do it slowly, reduce a minute a time at each feed? I'd say your risks for mastitis is higher so I'd watch out for that and act if you have any lumps/hot patches etc

Thank you!

I shall have a look on that website!

Sorry, I should have explained. She's 12 weeks old. I breastfed until about 8/9 weeks, but had all sorts of palavers with latching etc and so went on to exclusively pumping the last few weeks.

I think reducing it by a minute at a time sounds like a good idea. I wasn't producing all that much milk so I thought dropping one feed would be fine, but it's not going as well as I thought!!

Thank you for advice :)