Breastfeeding Mums - what are you doing at night?

As our babies are starting to sleep longer stretches, I wanted to ask for those breastfeeding how they deal with their milk. I find even if I am still feeding 2 or even 3 times in the night, the time in between is still longer than in the day so I often find I wake up having leaked through my breast pad, bra and top.

The most obvious thing to me would be to pump, but the nice thing about baby sleeping longer is I thought I would be able to sleep longer too! And I know if I get up to pump (having to sit upright, noise of the pump, sorting the milk after etc) that I would have trouble getting back to sleep. Not to mention it would probably wake my husband up too. Curious how others have dealt with this. Are we just accepting being leaky everywhere? 😂

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Eventually your body adjusts to the demand so I'd say the worst thing would be to pump if you don't need to build a stash. Use more / better breast pads and your body will adjust.

Just wait it out, your supply will regulate around the baby's needs. I don't have that problem at the moment, never pumped at night (aside from when I was having mastitis) and baby is sleeping through most nights.

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Honestly I use a heavy duty night time heavy flow period pad across my bra on top of the breast pads 😂 works most of the time to stop you waking up soaked!

I pump during the night otherwise my boobs will hurt 😭 I breastfeed during the day and maybe a few times during the night and he has bottle during the night too.
Pumping as I’m typing lol 🤣

lansinoh disposable breast pads in a tight enough vest top to hold them in place help

Baby girl has her last feed around 10 she doesn't wake up till 5 but I wake up bulging at 2 so I pump xx

Use an elvie curve on the other breast when you feed to release some of the pressure, even just 30mls without it fully emptying. It suctions on without you needing to fully pump xx

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