Has anyone else ever experienced passing out while pumping?

Over the last couple of weeks this has happened to me a few times now and I’m not really sure how to explain it other than I seem to lose consciousness while pumping. It’s not immediate when I start pumping and I don’t really feel dizzy beforehand — it just seems to happen.

Today was quite a bad one. My partner found me slumped over with the pumps still running. My nipple had slipped out of the flange and is now quite badly bruised from the pump continuing, and I’d bitten both sides of my tongue at the back.

Apparently I was snoring when he found me, but when I woke up I felt very confused and extremely tired. This has happened a few times over the past two weeks.

For context:

My daughter is 8 weeks old

She feeds every 3 hours

She is EBM (expressed breast milk)

I exclusively pump because she tends to fall asleep at the breast and doesn’t take enough to satisfy her

I am obviously very tired from the newborn stage

I do have my 8-week postpartum check with my GP tomorrow, so I will definitely be mentioning it then, but I just wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced anything similar while pumping or knows what might cause it.

Just looking for some advice or shared experiences really.

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