pumping and holiday

I've been pumping 5 mins each side after day time feeds, making that 4
times per day, it usually comes to about 6 ounces, which I freeze, I'm
building up a great freezer stash. I've been doing this as I thought I
might have low supply, ds's weight gain has improved, so it might be doing
the trick.

We are going on holiday next week and I'm not sure what to do pumping
wise, option one is ditch the pump and hope there's no supply issues when
we get back. Option 2 would be pump and dump, option 3 would be take stuff
to freeze the milk and hope there is an ice compartment in the fridge, the
journey back is under 3 hours, so with a cool bag and a couple of ice
packs it would hopefully be fine. Option 4 which seems a little silly
would be to pump during the day then skip the last feed at night and let
dh give him a bottle, but I think that would mean after a week there would
be more supply issues.

We'll be out and about more than I would be at home so I won't manage to
pump after every day time feed, probably I'll only manage 3 not 4 over the
day.


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Anne Rogers

I never get engorged, so I would just drop the pumping and go on
vacation knowing that there was plenty of milk for the baby since I
was no longer taking 6 oz out, but you might get engorged if you drop
all the pumping at once.

KC

Anne Rogers wrote in message ...
I've been pumping 5 mins each side after day time feeds, making that 4
times per day, it usually comes to about 6 ounces, which I freeze, I'm
building up a great freezer stash. I've been doing this as I thought I
might have low supply, ds's weight gain has improved, so it might be doing
the trick.

We are going on holiday next week and I'm not sure what to do pumping
wise, option one is ditch the pump and hope there's no supply issues when
we get back. Option 2 would be pump and dump, option 3 would be take stuff
to freeze the milk and hope there is an ice compartment in the fridge, the
journey back is under 3 hours, so with a cool bag and a couple of ice
packs it would hopefully be fine. Option 4 which seems a little silly
would be to pump during the day then skip the last feed at night and let
dh give him a bottle, but I think that would mean after a week there would
be more supply issues.

We'll be out and about more than I would be at home so I won't manage to
pump after every day time feed, probably I'll only manage 3 not 4 over the
day.


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Anne Rogers

I've been pumping 5 mins each side after day time feeds, making that 4
times per day, it usually comes to about 6 ounces, which I freeze, I'm
building up a great freezer stash. I've been doing this as I thought I
might have low supply, ds's weight gain has improved, so it might be doing
the trick.

If you can pump an average of 1.5 ounces in 5 minutes
immediately after nursing, it doesn't sound like low supply
to me. But I don't let down for the pump well.

I agree, but before I was doing this we had weight gain issues (he even
lost weight one week), now we are on track, it might not be strictly
necessary, but it seems to work, and it means I have a great stash.