Pumping question

[hisbloodformysins]

I'm trying to pump once a day so can get a good supply stored for when I return to work. I'm trying to wait to pump until after a feeding, as soon as possible, sometimes it might take an hour before I can get to it because I'm busy.... and usually my baby sleeps 4 hour stretches, sometimes only 2 hour stretches... we have a routine but not an overly predictable routine becuase she's only 4 weeks old. But my question is, what happens if I pump all my milk and then she wakes up right after and wants to nurse? Will I just be dry... does it take a certain amount of the time for the milk to be made again or can I still nurse her and it be ok?

I worried about this all the time with my first 3 and was afraid to pump and then not have the milk to feed them when they wake and don't want to give her a bottle.

HB

 

[jgonz]

No, you're never dry so don't worry about not having enough, even if you just pumped. The baby will be able to get a let-down in the same amount of time as before, it's just that you won't have as much "stored" milk in the breast ready to go.

The more you pump & nurse, the more milk you'll have though, so it's all good.

 

[hisbloodformysins]

Ok, thank you. Couldn't that make the baby more frustrated though? It seems to me in the past with my last baby she'd suck and then unlatch herself and cry ... though now I'm realizing that when this baby does that, it's because she's having gas pain.

So earlier I felt engorged, then she woke and I fed her, then I pumped 5 ounces even after that... and she slept 4 hours and I fed her again and felt full even after she initially emptied me so now I'm thinking that maybe I should/ or could get away with pumping more then once a day as long as I have enough milk for her when she needs to eat... to help build up my frozen milk supply and my breast milk supply

 

[OrangeHope]

Yeap, your never dry. Some times I would pump and soon after pumping my baby would wake up to eat and she had enough. I don't exclusively pump but I try to pump at least once every day so I can have a little stash in the freezer if I need a break or we're going out some where.

 

[hisbloodformysins]

This really helps, thanks moms