Pumping 🍼 🫧 👶🏽

What pumps have you got? Wearable ones? Can’t help with the routine and schedule because I gave up after a week of pumping 😂

Honestly just do what’s best for you, don’t put added pressure on yourself, at four weeks baby’s had all the best stuff! My little one never latched so I was pumping all my feeds for 7/8 weeks, it was so hard, I was pumping an hour after every feed to keep up supply, that and having to wash pump parts as well was exhausting. While I felt a little guilty switching to formula the relief was immense. The wearable pumps are pretty good to pop in while you give your toddler your time and devotion and the mendela hand pump is good, just try and set yourself small goals to start with so you don’t get overwhelmed, and maybe the cost of formula can keep you going for motivation. Either way you’re doing awesome!x

I pumped for 5 months or so to keep my supply. What I did was I made sure my pump was sterilesed as soon as I finished pumping so it was ready for the next pumping session. I pumped whilst I was eating so I was gonna be sitting anyways, it didn't feel like waste of time. Also I realised if I pump whilst eating I made much more milk. Seeing the milk increase motivated me more. I made it so that I was pumping more or less around the same time every day so it became part of the routine.
Hope this helps