Breastfeeding/expressing advice

I'm 10 days PP and a FTM, breastfeeding is going really well but I got sooo overwhelmed last night by her cluster feeding from 10pm-3am, it was relentless and none stop. The groups we went to reccomended waiting till 6 weeks to start expressing to make sure she has a good latch on me and to minimise nipple confusion.

Has anyone expressed earlier and not had nipple confusion?

I've also not a clue what time of day I'd express.. I don't want an oversupply.

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Hey, firstly you’re doing amazing - those long nights cluster feeding are wild!

With my first (currently awaiting my second ⏰) I would collect some milk from the let down from the breast I wasn’t feeding with during one or two of the night feeds (you produce more milk at night), either with a haaka or hand pump. We probably did this from 3-4 weeks?

That gave me enough that my partner could give baby one feed during the night and buy me a couple of extra hours. The one bottle feed didn’t cause nipple confusion, and as it wasn’t intense pumping, no oversupply either ☺️

My little one is 2 weeks old tomorrow, I exclusively breastfeed on demand currently but I collect my let down and end up giving him around a 3oz bottle once per day and he has no issues with nipple confusion he takes either just fine, he also has a dummy and no confusion there either, I think it depends on baby honestly x

I started pumping when my LO was 3 days old because she was pre term and jaundice so wasn't getting enough milk! She will usually have one bottle a day before bed and will happily take the breast the rest of the time so no confusion.

Can't help with getting an oversupply as I've had the opposite and have needed to create more of a supply for my milk!

You are doing an amazing job! Clusterfeeding is so hard but it does pass.

With my first, I had to express from the beginning because he had a tongue tie and was struggling to gain weight. Initially, we cup fed to try and prevent nipple confusion but we were wasting so much milk that he had a bottle from about 1 week. I absolutely did create an oversupply but managed it with collectors and in the end donated to the milk bank.

This time, she’s such good feeder. I’ve used a haakaa to collect let down only, but have frozen all the milk I’ve collected. Don’t really know what our plan is with bottles and I think will wait till the 6 week mark, but it’s only because it created a fair bit of freedom with our first because he would happily take a bottle so I could go to the hairdressers, nice things like that without worrying!

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