Sleeping through the night / breastfeeding

Woohoo - enjoy the sleep.
I had similar few weeks ago but if you keep pumping then your milk supply will stay the same or increase. Your body thinks your baby is eating at night this way. What I did was express tiny bits whenever I woke up, but never emptied them. It regulated in 2-3 nights. And then my boy started waking up again during the night 😀

From what I have learnt our bodies are amazing! Breast milk is a supply and demand thing, so the more demand the more supply, and babies are so efficient at getting the milk out of us!

If you pump for every missed feed you are telling your body there's still a demand at the time of the day for a feed and you'll continue to be engorged.. how long are you pumping for? Did you hand express just enough to take the edge off or more? Yana has said what I'd usually say about just doing a bit and that your body will regulate after a few days!

Then if you're LO starts waking up again...? Well the demand is back so the supply will match it! Magic boobs!

🤔 If the hand expressing really isn't working, maybe pump for a shorter time each night, just to get the edge off and never fully empty, until just hand expressing again and then stop that 🤔

My LO is 13 weeks old and does 5-7 hr stretches. I pump once throughout the night x