Milk supply - advice please!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Yes your supply will decrease. Breast milk production is supply and demand. However if you power pump on your time off you should be fine. Try and pump in the middle of your shift if you can so that way you’re not getting engorged.

Your employer legally should be giving you more breaks and a locked place to store your milk. Just let them know before your back that's what you need x

thank you, makes sense! So, does it matter that when I do extra pumping on my time off I don’t get much? I find that when I do pump extra in between feeds I don’t express much, compared to when it’s been a few hours. Does that make sense? Thank you x

yes I’ve heard this. But being on the ambulance it’s a bit hard to find the time to pump because we can be with a patient for hours, and you can’t just disappear. If a high priority call comes in there’s not much I can do. I can pump on my break but that will just be once during a shift 🫤 x

Supply works on supply and demand, the more you remove the more you make... so similarly the less you remove the less you make.
Also you're risking your health by delaying pumping, and that's on your employer if they're not giving you pumping breaks. Going long periods without pumping, when you'd normally pump or feed risks mastitis

it’s going to seem that way because you are emptying your breasts more often, so don’t worry that you’re not getting as many oz when you pump in between feeds you’re still signaling to your body to make milk ☺️

Do you go out when your pregnancy? Maybe you need to be treated the same as being pregnant x

Oof, you're going to be very sore only pumping once in twelve hours when baby is that young. Can you get some more pumps in? Your work should be able to accommodate that.

They should allow you to get more then one break to accommodate you unless you pump while working

Thanks everyone. I think because I’m a student at university and not actually employed by the ambulance trust there’s not an awful lot they can do. Especially since I’m working around different stations across the shire. Once I eventually start the job properly when baby is about 8 months old hopefully they can make accommodations because I’ll be permanently employed by them. And hopefully I’m still breast feeding! I will do what I can and will take all advice on board, I appreciate it 🥰🥰

Can you get pumps you can hide inside your clothes