Breastfeeding

Congratulations on your baby girl! Pumping can help build up your supply more and you can use the milk for purée foods later on down the line. You can also use pumped milk to give to baby if your nipples are ever sore.

There needs to be a removal of milk every 3-4 hours to keep your supply up for your baby. At the beginning, I would sleep in and not have a removal from 12am-6am and my supply decreased heavily so make sure you either have your baby feed from you or do a quick 10 min pump!

Be careful with pumping. Sometimes it give you a over supply and its when you get matistis .. if your midewife can relate you to the breastfeeding pro lady she will help you a lot . She helped me and still help me now 5 months later 3 babies later ! They are amazing ! Xx

If your milk supply is not low and your not worried about it absolutely not I used to pump day and night stopped the night it was too much waking up I would be so tired then stopped during the day really bc of work but my supply stayed

For me personally, I had to pump in the middle of the night. I was too engorged and I now don’t have an oversupply
I also work in the evening and only pump then. I exclusively breastfeed during the day when I’m with my kids.

I only get up to pump during the night once the fullness becomes too uncomfortable. If you’re exclusively breastfeeding and aren’t worried about creating a stash I would say only pump at night if needed to relieve the pressure

I tried pumping but it actually made the milk come more and it was exhausting so just stuck to giving it to bubba when she wanted it. But now she’s teething it is incredibly uncomfortable.

I feed her on demand but it’s seems like during the night she can go 2-3 hours between feeding . So should I try pump in the middle of the night? I try to pump first thing in the morning as well before her first feeding of the day

Also is it normal to hear her gulping/swallowing while feeding??